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PROPER NAMES AND THEIR 
DEFINITIONS, FROM CRU- 
DENS^ CONCORDANCE TO 
THE OLD AND NEW TESTA- 
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THE SYMBOLICAL LANGUAGE OF SCRIPTURE 
WITH REFERENCES. 



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1903: 

JANE E. ADAMS, Publisher, 

Sioux City, Iowa. 




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Copyright, 1903, 
By jane E. ADAMS 



Perkins Bros. Co., Printers. 



PREFACE. 



The definition of the proper names from Crudens' 
Concordance, written by Alexander Crudens, in 1737, is 
considered by Bible students a valuable aid in gaining the 
Literal and Spiritual meaning of the Bible. 

This little book contains these definitions, also the 
symbolical language of the Scriptures, and is put in such 
form as will be convenient for use in ready reference. 



Proper Names and Their Definitions 
From Crudens' Concordance. 



A 



AARON — Signifies lofty, or mountainous ; or, mountain 
of strength ; or a teacher, or teaching. The 
first high priest of the Jezvs, the son of 
Amram, brother to Moses. He, at the 
desire of the people, made a calf, which they 
worshipped, and thereby committed a great 
sin. He was, with his sons, anointed and 
consecrated to the priest's office. Lev., 8. 

AARONITES. 

ABADDON—The destroyer. Rev., 9-1 1. 

ABAGTHA— Father of the wine-press. 

ABANA — Made of stone, or a building. 

ABARIM — Passages, or passengers. 

ABDA — A servant, or servitude. 

ABDI — He is my servant. 

ABDIEL — The servant of God ; or, cloud of the abund- 
ance of God. 

ABDON — A servant, or cloud of judgment. 

ABED-NEGO— Servant of light. Dan., 3-23. 

ABEL — Adam's second son, signifies vanity, or breath, or 
vapour. Gen., 4-4. 

ABEL — A city, signifies mourning. 

ABEL-BETH-MAACHAH— Mourning to the house of 
Maachah. 



ABEL-MAIM — The mourning of the waters ; or, the 

valley of waters. 
ABEL-MEHOLAH — Sorrow or mourning of weakness, 

or of sickness. 
ABEL-MIZRAIM— The mourning of the Egyptians. 

Gen., 50-11. 
ABEL-SHITTIM— Mourning of the thorns. It was a 

city near the river Jordan in the wilderness. 

Num., 33-49. 
ABEZ — An ^gg, or muddy. A city in the tribe of Issa- 

char. Jos., 19-20. 
ABI — My father. The mother of Hezekiah, 2 Kings, 

18-2. 
ABIAH — The Lord is my father, or the father of the 

Lord. 
ABI-ALBON — Most intelligent father, or the father over 

the building; or, father of injury. 
AB I ATHAR— Excellent father, or father of him that 

survived, i Sam., 22-20. 
ABIB — Green fruits, or ears of corn. 
ABIDAH — The father of knowledge, or the knowledge 

of the father. One of the sons of Midian, 

Gen., 25-4. 
ABIDAN — Father of judgment, or my father is judge. 
ABIEL — God my father, or my God the Father. He was 

the father of Kish. 1 Sam., 9-1. 
ABIEZER — Father of help, or help of the father ; or my 

father is my help. 



ABI-EZRITE. 

ABIGAIL — Father of joy, or the joy of the father, i 

Sam., 25-3. 
ABIHAIL — The father of strength, or father of trouble. 
ABIHU — He is my father, or his father. 
ABIJAH — The will of the Lord, or the Lord is my 

father. 

ABIJAM— Father of the sea. 

ABILENE — The father of the apartment, or of mourn- 
ing. A promise between Libamis and Anti- 
libaniiSj whereof Lysanias was tetrarch. 
Luke 3-1. 

ABIMAEL — Father sent from God, or my father comes 
from God. He was the son of Joktan, 
Gen., 10-28. 

ABIMELECH— Father of the king, or my father the 
king. 

ABINADAB — Father of willingness ; or, my father is a 
prince. 

ABINOAM — Father of beauty, or comeliness; or, my 
father is beautiful. 

ABIRAM— A high father, or father of fraud. 

ABISHAG — Ignorance of the father. 

ABASHAI — The present of my father, or the father of 
the present ; otherzvise, the father of the sac- 
rifice, or the sacrifice of my father. 



ABISHALOM — The father of peace, or the peace of the 
father ; or, the recompense of the father, i 
Kings, 15-2. 
ABISHUA — Father of salvation, or of magnificence, or 

the salvation of my father, i Chr., 6-4. 
ABISHUR — The father of the wall, or of uprightness; 

or, my father is upright, i Chron., 2-28. 
ABITAIL— The father of the dew ; or, the father of the 
shadow, according to the Syriac. One of 
David's wives. 2 Sam., 3-4. 
ABITUB — Father of goodness, or my father is good, i 

Chron., 8-1 1. 
ABIHUD — Father of praise, or glory of my father. 
ABNER — Father of light, or the lamp of father, or the 

son of the father. 
ABRAjNI — A high father ; the father of elevation. 
ABRAHAM— The father of a great multitude. At the 
command of God Abraham went out of Ur 
of the Chaldees, his native country, into 
Canaan, where the Lord promised to give 
that land to his seed. The Messiah was 
promised to he of his family, for in his 
seed all the families of the earth were to 
he hlessed. Gen., 12-3. Acts, 3-25. Gal., 
3-8. He was circumcised with all his 
household, and taught his fauiily to keep 
the commands of God. His faith zvas 
tried in heing commanded to offer up his 



son Isaac; but the angel of the Lord stayed 
him, and Isaac was exchanged with a 
ram, Isaac in this matter was an eminent 
type and figure of Christ, who, in the time 
appointed by God, was to be offered up a 
sacrifice for the sins of those that believe 
in him. The spiritual children of faithful 
Abraham, are those that believe in lesus 
Christ, and do the works of Abraham. 
John, 8-39. Rom., 4-16 and 9-7. Gal., 3- 
7-29. 

ABSALOM — Father of peace, or the peace of the father. 

ACCAD — A vessel, a pitcher; or, a sparkle. The city 
where Nimrod reigned. Gen., 10-10. 

ACCHO — Close, inclosed, pressed together. 

ACELDAMA— The field of blood. Acts, 1-19. 

ACHAIA— Grief, or trouble. 

ACHAICUS— A native of Achaia. 

ACHAN, or ACHAR— He that troubles and bruises. 

ACHBOR — A rat; otherwise, bruising or inclosing the 
well. He was father of Baal-hanan, the 
seventh King of Edom, Gen., 36-38. 

ACHIM — Preparing, confirming, or revenging. 

ACHISH — Thus it is; or how is this? 

ACHMETHA— ^ city. 

ACHOR— Trouble. 

ACHSAH — Adorned ; or, bursting of the veil. 



6 A 

ACHSHAPH— Poison, tricks ; or, one that breaks ; or, 

the hp or brim of anything. 
ACHZIB — ^Liar, lying ; or, that runs ; or, that delays. 

ADADAH — The witness or testimony of the assembly. 
The name of a city. Jos., 15-22. 

ADAH — An assembly. The wife of Lamech. Gen., 4- 
19. Also the wife of Esau. Gen., 36-2. 

ADAIAH — The witness of the Lord. The father of Jedi- 
dah, mother of Josiah. 2 Kings, 22-1. 

ADALIAH — One that draws water ; or, poverty, or cloud, 
vapour, death. One of Hamans sons. 
Esth., 9-8. 

ADAM — Earthy, taken out of red earth. The name of 
the first man, who was made after the image 
of God, in a holy and happy estate, hut by 
his fall and disobedience broke covenant 
with God, and thereby brought himself and 
all his posterity into an estate of sin and 
misery. Rom., 5-12. But our Lord Jesus 
Christ, the second Adam, is the Saviour and 
Redeemer of all that truly believe in him. 
Mark, 16-16. Acts, 4-12 and 16-31. 

ADAMAH — Red earth. A city. Josh., 19-36. 

ADAMI — My man, red, earthy, human. A city. Jos., 

19-33- 
ADAR — High, or eminent. 



ADBEEL — A vapour, a cloud of God ; otherwise a vexer 
of God. Gne of Ishmael's sons. Gen., 25- 

13- 
ADDI — My witness, adorned, passage, prey. 

ADDON — Basis, foundation, the Lord. The name of a 

place. Neh., 7-61. 

ADIEL — The witness of the Lord, i Chron., 4-36. 

ADIN — Adorned, or voluptuous, dainty. Ezra, 8-6. 

ADITHAIM — Assemblies, or testimonies. Josh., 15-36. 

ADLAI — My witness, my ornament, i Chron., 27-29. 

ADMAH— Earthy, red earth. 

ADMATHA — A cloud of death, a mortal vapour. Esth., 

1-14. 
ADNAH — Rest, or testimony eternal, i Chron., 12-20. 
ADONI-BEZEK— The lightning of the Lord, or the 

Lord of lightning; or, the Lord of Bezek. 

For he was king of this city. 
ADONIJAH— The Lord is my master. 
ADONIKAM— The Lord is raised, or my Lord hath 

raised me. 
ADONIRAM— My Lord is most high, or the Lord of 

might and elevation, i Kings, 4-6. 
ADONI-ZEDEK— Justice of the Lord ; or, the Lord of 

Justice. He was King of Jerusalem, 

Josh., lo-i. 
ADORAM — Their beauty, their power, or their praise. 

He was David's tribute-gatherer. 2 Sam., 

20-24. 



8 A 

ADORAIM — Strength or power of the sea. 2 Chron., 
1 1-9. 

ADRAMMELECH— The cloak, glory, grandeur or 
power of the king. 

ADRAMMYTTIUM— The court of death, the mansion 
of death. 

ADRIA — The name of a city which gives name to the 
Adriatic sea, now the Gulf of Venice, 

ADULLAM — Their testimony, their prey, or their orna- 
ment. 

AGABUS— A locust, or the feast of the father. 

AGAG— Roof, floor. 

AGAGITE— Of the race of Agag. 

AGAR— See Hagar. 

AGRIPPA — This word is Latin, and signifies one who at 
his birth causes great pain, who is born with 
his feet foremost, ager partus. 

AGUR — A stranger, or gathering, or gathered together. 

AHAB — The brother of the father, uncle or father of the 
brother. 

AHASUERUS— Prince, head, or chief. 

AHAVA — Essence, or generation. 

AHAZ — One that takes and possesses. 

AHAZIAH — Seizure, possession, or vision of the Lord. 

AHIAH— Brother of the Lord. 

AHIEZER — Brother of assistance. A prince of the tribe 
of Dan. Num., 1-12. 

AHIJAH— T/t^ same with AHIAH. 



A 9 

AHIKAM — A brother that raises up. 
AHILUD — A brother born. He was secretary to David, 
2 Sam., 8-16. 

AHIMAAZ — Brother of the council, or my brother is 
counsellor. 

AHIMAN — A brother prepared, or brother of the right 

hand. 
AHIMELECH— My brother is a king, or the brother of 

my king. 

AHIMOTH— Brother of death, or my brother is dead, i 
Chron., 6-25. 

AHINOAM — The beauty and comeliness of the brother, 
or brother of motion. 

AHIO — His brother, his brethren. 

AHIRA — Brother of iniquity ; otherwise, brother or com- 
panion of the shepherd. He was chief of 
the tribe of Naphtali. Num., 1-15. 

AHISAMACH — Brother of strength or support, or my 
brother supports me. 

AHISHAR — Brother of a prince, or brother of a song. 

He was steward of Solomon s household, 

I Kings, 4-6. 
AHITHOPHEL— Brother of ruin or folly. 
AHITUB — Brother of goodness, or my brother is good. 
AHIHUD — Brother of praise. The prince of the tribe 

of Asher. Num., 34-27. 



10 A 

AHLAB — Which is of milk, or which is fat ; otherwise, 

brother of the heart. The name of a city. 

Judges, 1-31. 
AHOLAH — His tabernacle, his tent. 
AHOLIAB— The tent, or tabernacle of the father. 
AHOLIBAH — My tent and my tabernacle in her. 
AHOLIBAMAH— My tabernacle is exalted. 
AI, or HAI — A mass or heap. 
AlOTB^—The same as AI. 

AJALON — A chain; otherwise, strength, or a stag. 
ALAMMELECH— God is king. A city. Josh., 19-26. 
ALEXANDER — Is a Greek zvord, and signifies one that 

assists men, or one that helps stoutly ; or, 

one that turns away evil. 
ALEXANDRIA—^ city in Egypt. 
ALLELUIA — Praise the Lord, or praise to the Lord. 
ALLON — An oak, or strong, i Chron., 4-37. 
ALLON-BACHUTH— The oak of weeping. The place 

where RebekaWs nurse was bnried. Gen., 

35-8. 
ALMODAD— Measure of God. Gen., 10-26. 
ALPHA — The first letter of the Greek alphabet, marked 

A. 
ALPHEUS — A thousand ; otherwise, learned, or chief. 
AMALEK — A people that licks up, or that takes away 

all ; otherwise, a people that strikes, or that 

uses ill. 
AMALEKITES— P^^^/^ descended from AMALEK. 



A 11 

AMANA — Integrity and truth. 

AMARIAH — The Lord says, or the excellency of the 

Lord. Zeph., i-i. 
AMASA — A forgiving people, or sparing the people ; 

otherwise, the burden of the people. 
AMAZIAH— The strength of the Lord. 
AMMAH— My people. 
KMMl—The same with AMMAH. 
AMMI-NADIB — My people is liberal, or prince of the 

people, or a people that vows. 
AMMIHUD — People of praise ; or, praise is with me. 

Num., i-io. 
AMMISHADDAI— The people of the Almighty, or the 

Almighty is with me. Num., 1-12. 
AMMON — A people, or the son of my people. 
AMMONITES—^ people that descended of BENAM- 

MI, son of Lot by his youngest daughter. 
AMNON — Faithful and true ; otherwise, foster-father, 

or tutor; or, son of the mother. 
AMON— Faithful, true. 
AMORITE — Bitter, a rebel ; otherzvise, a babbler or 

prater. 
AMOS — Loading, weighty. 
AMOZ — Strong, robust. 

AMPHIPOLIS— A city encompassed by the sea. 
AMPLIAS — Large, extensive. A Latin word, 
AMRAM — An exalted people ; or, their sheaves, or hand- 

fuls of corn. 



12 A 

AMRAPHEL — One that speaks of hidden things; or, 

one that speaks of judgment, or of ruin. 
ANAH — One who answers, or who sings ; otherwise, 

poor or afflicted. 
ANAK — A collar, or ornament. 
ANAKIMS. 
ANAMMELECH— Answer, or song of the king and 

council. 
ANANIAS— The cloud of the Lord. 
ANATHOTH — Answer, song; or, affliction, poverty. 
ANDREW — A stout and strong man. A Greek word. 
ANDRONICUS — A man excelling others, a victorious 

man. Greek. 
ANER — Answer, song, affliction, of light. 
ANNA — Gracious, merciful. 
ANNAS — One that answers, that afflicts and humbles, or 

gracious, merciful. A high priest who sent 

Christ bound to Caiaphas, his father-in-law. 
ANTICHRIST— An adversary to Christ. 
ANTIOCH — For, or instead of a chariot ; or, equal in 

speed with a chariot. 
ANTIPAS — For all, or against all. One of the martyrs 

slain by the people of Pergamiis. Rev.^ 

2-13. 
ANTIPATRIS— For, or against the father. 
APELLES — A Greek word from the verb meaning I 

exclude, I separate. 
APHEK — A stream, a rapid torrent ; or, strength, vigour. 



A 13 

APOLLONIA— Perdition, destruction. 

APOLLOS — ^One that destroys and lays waste. 

APOLLYON — One that exterminates or destroys. 

APPHIA — That produces, or is fruitful. Philem., 2. 

APPH-FORUM — A town so called from Appius Claud- 
ius, whose statue was erected there. 

AQUILA — An eagle. Latin, 

AR — Awaking, watching, evacuation, uncovering. 

ARABIA — Evening, or a place wild and desert ; or, hos- 
tages, ravens ; and also, mixtures ; because 
this country was inhabited by different kinds 
of people. 

ARABIAN. 

ARAM — Highness, magnificence ; otherwise, one that de- 
ceives, or their curse. ARAM signifies 
Syria in Gen., 22-21, and elsewhere. 

ARARAT — The curse of trem.bling. 

ARAUNAH — Ark, song, joyful cry, curse. 

AREA— The city of the four. 

ARCHELAUS — The prince of the people. Greek. 

ARCHIPPUS — A governor of horses, or master of the 
horse. Greek. 

ARCTURUS— A gathering together. 

ARD — One that commands, or he that descends. A son 
of Benjamin. Gen., 46-21. 

ARELI — The light or vision of God. Gen., 46-16. 

AREOPAGITE — Belonging to the council called Areo- 
pagus. 



14 A 

AREOPAGUS— The hill of Mars; a place where the 

magistrates of Athens held their supreme 

council; from Greek meaning Mars, and a 

hill. 
ARETAS — One that is agreeable, that pleases, that is 

virtuous. 
ARGOB — A turf of earth, or fat land, or curse of the 

well. 
ARIEL — The altar, light or lion of God. 
ARIMATHEA— A lion dead to the Lord ; or, the light 

of the death of the Lord ; or simply Ramath, 

or Ramah, a city where Samuel dwelt, i 

Sam., 1-19. 
ARIOCH — Long, great, tall ; or, your drunkenness ; or, 

your lion. 
ARISTARCHUS — A good prince, the best prince^ 

Greek, 
ARISTOBULUS — A good counsellor, good advice. 

Greek. 
ARMAGEDDON— The mountain of Megiddo, or the 

mountain of the gospel ; otherzvise, the 

miountain of fruits, or of apples. 
ARMENLA. — A province which is supposed to take its 

name from Aram. 
ARNON — Rejoicing, or leaping for joy; or, their chest, 

or ark. 
AROER — Heath, tamarisk ; or, the nakedness of the skin ; 

or, nakedness of the watch, or of the enemy. 



A 15 

ARPAD — The light of redemption ; or, that Hes down, 
that makes his bed. 

ARPHAXAD — One that heals ; or, one that releases. 

ARTAXERXES— /?^- Hebrew Artachsasta, the silence of 
light, or light that imposes silence ; other- 
wise, joy that is in haste. A Persian name, 

ARTEMAS— Whole, sound, or without fault. 

ASA — Physician, or cure. 

ASAHEL — The work, or creature of God. 

ASAIAH — The Lord hath wrought ; or, a creature of the 
Lord. 

ASAPH — One that assembles together; or, one that 
finishes and completes. 

ASENATH— Peril, or misfortune. 

ASHDOD — Inclination, leaning ; or, a wild open place ; 
or, pillage, theft. 

ASHER — Blessedness, or happiness. 

ASHIMA — Crime ; or, position ; or, fire of the sea. The 
name of an idol, 2 Kings, 17-30. 

ASHKENAZ— A fire that distills or spreads. One of 
the sons of Gomer, Gen., 10-3. 

ASHTAROTH — Flocks, the sheep, or riches. 

ASHUR — One that is happy, that walks on prosperously. 

ASIA — Muddy, boggy. 

ASKELON — Weight, or balance ; or, fire of infamy. 

ASNAPPER — Unhappiness, misfortune of the bull or 
calf ; or fruitfulness, or increase of danger. 

ASSIR — Prisoner, fettered, i Chron., 3-17. 



16 A 

ASSOS — Approaching, coming near to. Acts, 20-13. 

ASSYRIA. 

ASSYRIAN. 

ASYNCRITUS— Incomparable. 

ATAD— A thorn. 

ATHALIAH— The time of the Lord. 

ATHENIANS— /;i/ia&i^a7if^ of Athens. 

ATHENS — So called from Athene, or Athenaia. 

Minerva. 
ATTALIAH — That increases or sends. 
AVEN — Iniquity, force, riches. 

AUGUSTUS — Increased, augmented ; or, royal, majestic. 
AZARIAH — Assistance, or help of the Lord ; or, he that 

hears the Lord, or whom the Lord hears. 
AZEKAH— Strength of walls. 
AZGAD — A strong army, or the strength of a troop ; 

otherwise, a gang of robbers, or a troop of 

soldiers. Ezra, 2-12. 

AZNOTH-TABOR— The ears of Tabor ; or, the ears of 
choice, purity, contrition. Jos., 19-34. 

AZOTUS— T/i^ same as ASHDOD— Pillage, theft. Acts, 
8-40. 

AZUR — He that assists, or he that is assisted. Jer., 28-1. 



B 17 



B 



BAAL — He that rules and subdues ; or, master, lord, or 
husband. 

BAALAH — Her idol ; or, she that is governed or sub- 
dued, a spouse. A city. Jos., 15-9. 

BAAL-BERITH — Idol of the covenant ; or, he that pos- 
sesses, or subdues the covenant. 

BAAL-GAD — The idol of the troop, of the army, or of 
felicity; otherwise, the Lord is master of 
the troop. Josh., 11-17. 

BAAL-HAMON — One that possesses or rules a multi- 
tude ; a populous place. 

BAAL-HERMON — The possessor of destruction ; or, of 
a thing cursed, devoted, or consecrated to 
God. It is a mountain. Judg., 3-3. 

BAALI — My idol, master, or lord over me. 

BAALIM — Idols, masters, false gods. 

BAALIS — A rejoicing, or proud lord. 

BAAL-MEON— The idol, the master of the house. 

BAAL-PEOR— Master of the opening. 

BAAL-PERAZIM— Master, or god of divisions, or he 
that possesses and enjoys divisions and dis- 
sipations. 

BAAL-SHALISHA— The third idol, the third husband; 
or, that governs or presides over three. 



18 B 

BAAL-TAMAR— Master of the palm tree. 
BAAL-ZEBUB— The master of flies. 
BAAL-ZEPHON — The idol, or possession of the north ; 

or, hidden secret. 
BAANAH — In the answer, in affliction. 
BAASHAH — In the work, or in the compression ; or, he 

that seeks and demands, or who lays waste. 
BABEL — Confusion, or mixture. 
BABYLON— The same with BABEL. 
BABYLONIANS. 
BABYLONISH. 
BACA— Mulberry-tree. 
BAHURIM — Choice, warlike, valiant. 
BAJITH— A house. 
BALAAM — The old age or ancient of the people, or their 

destruction ; or, without the people. 
BALAK — Who lays waste and destroys ; or, who licks 

and laps. 
BAMAH — An eminence, or high place. 
BARABBAS — Son of the father, or of the master, or the 

son of confusion and shame. 
BARACHEL — Who blesses God, who bends the knee 

before God. The father of Elihii. Job, 32-2. 
BARACHIAS— T/t^ same with BARACHEL. 
BARAK — Thunder, or in vain. 
BAR-JESUS — Son of Jesus or Joshua. 
BAR-JONA — The son of Jona, or of a dove. 
BARNABAS — The son of the prophet, or of consolation. 



B 19 

BARSABAS — Son of return, or of conversion; or son 

of rest, or son of swearing. 
BARTHOLOMEW— A son that suspends the waters. 
BARTIMEUS — The son of Timeus, or of the perfect 

and honorable. 
BARUCH — Who is blessed, who bends the knee. 
BARZILLAI — Made of iron ; or, the son of contempt. 
BASHAN — In the tooth, or in the ivory ; otherwise, in 

the change, or the sleep. 
BASHEM ATH — Perfumed ; or, confusion of death ; 

otherwise, in desolation. 
BATH-SHEBA — The seventh daughter, or the daughter 

of an oath. 
BEDAD — Alone, solitary, or, in friendship, in the bosom, 

or the nipple. He was father of Hadad. 

Gen., 36-35. 
BED AN — Only ; or, in the judgment ; or, according to 

judgment. 
BEEL-ZEBUB— T/i^ same with BAAL-ZEBUB. 
BEER — A well. The name of a city. Num., 21-16. 
BEER-LAHAI-ROI— The well of him that liveth and 

seeth me. Gen., 16-14. 
BEER-SHEBA — The well, or fountain of an oath ; other- 
wise, the seventh well, or the well of satiety. 
BEKAH— /-/a// a shekel. 
BEL — Ancient; or nothing, vain, or what is subject to 

change. The name of an idol, 
BELIAL— Wicked, or the devil. 



20 B 

BELSHAZZAR — Master of the treasure, or who lays up 
treasures in secret. 

BELTESHAZZAR — Who lays up treasures in secret; 
or he that secretly endures pain and pres- 
sure. 

BENAIAH — Son of the Lord ; or, the understanding of 
the Lord ; or, the Lord's building. 

BEN-AMMI— The son of my people. 

BEN-HADAD — The son of Hadad, or of noise, clamour, 
cry. 

BENJAMIN— The son of the right hand. 

BENJAMITE. 

BENONI — Son of my grief, pain, sorrow. 

BEOR — Burning; otherwise, foolish, mad, beast. 

BERACHAH — Blessing, or bending of the knee. 

BEREA — Heavy, weighty; from Greek meaning weight. 

BERITH— Covenant. 

BERNICE — One that brings victory. 

BESOR — Glad news, or incarnation. 

BETAH— Confidence. A city. 2 Sam. 8-8. 

BETHABARA — The house of passage, or house of 
anger. 

BETHANY — The house of song, or of affliction ; other- 
wise, the house of obedience, or the house 
of the grace of the Lord. 

BETH-AVEN — The house of vanity, of iniquity, of 
trouble, of strength. 

BETH-BIREI — The house of my Creator ; or, the temple 
of my Creator, i. Chr., 4-31. 



B 21 

BETH-CAR — The house of the lamb ; or, the house of 

knowledge. A city, i Sam., 7-1 1. 
BETH-DA GO N — The house of corn ; or, the habitation 

of the fish ; or, the temple of the god 

Dagon. Josh., 19-27. 
BETH-DIBLATHAIM— The house of dry figs. 
BETH-EL — The house of God. 
BETHELITE. 
BETHER — Division ; otherwise, in the turtle, or in the 

trial, or the perquisition. 
BETHESDA — The house of efifusion ; or, the house of 

pity, or mercy. 
BETH-EZEL — A neighbour's house. 
BETH-GAMUL — The house of recompence, or of the 

weaned ; or, the house of the camel. 
BETH-HACCEREM— The house of the vineyard. 
BETH-HORON— The house of wrath ; or, the house of 

the hole, or of the cave, or of liberty. 
BETH-LEHEM — The house of bread, or the house of 

war. 
BETH-LEHEM-EPHRAIM. 
BETH-LEHEM-JUDAH. 
BETH-LEHEMITE. 

BETH-PEOR — The house of gaping or opening. 
BETH-PHAGE— The house of the mouth, or the drain 

of the valleys ; or, the house of early figs. 
BETHSAIDA— The house of fruits or of food, or of 

hunters, or of snares. 



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BETH-SHAN— The house of the tooth, or of ivory ; or, 
the house of change; or, the dwelHng of 
sleep. 

BETH-SHEMESH— The house of the son; or, the 
house of service, or of ministry. 

BETHUEL— FiHation of God. 

BEULAH— Married. 

BEZALEEL — In the shadow of God. 

BEZEK — Lightning; or, in the chains or fetters. 

BICHRI — First born, or first fruits ; otherwise, in the 

ram, or the sheep. 
BIDKAR — In compunction, or in sharp pain, in the 

wound. 
BIGTHAN— Giving meat, Esth., 2-21. Called also 

Bigthana. Chap., 6-2. 
BILDAD— Old friendship, or old love. 
BILHAH — Who is old, troubled, or confused ; or which 

spreads itself. 
BIRSHA — In evil ; or son that beholds. Gen., 14-2. 
BITHIAH— Daughter of the Lord, i Chron., 4-18. 
BITHRON — Division ; or, in his examination ; or, 

daughter of the song; or, the habitation of 

the song, or of anger, or of liberty. 
BITHYNIA — Violent precipitation; from Greek word 

meaning violence, and the verb meaning I 

make haste. 
BLASTUS — One that sprouts and brings forth. 



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BOANERGES — The sons of thunder, James and John 

sons of Zebedee. 
BOAZ, or BOOZ — In strength, or in the goat. 
BOCHIM — The place of weeping or of mourners, or of 

mulberry-trees. 
BOZEZ — Mud, bog ; or, in him the flower. The name of a 

rock, I Sam., 14-4. 
BOZRAH — In tribulation or distress. 
BUL — Changeable, perishing. The name of a month, 
BUZ — Despised, or plundered. 
BUZI— My contempt. 
BUZITE — A descendant from Buz. 



CABUL — Displeasing or dirty. 

CAIAPHAS — A searcher; or he that seeks with dili- 
gence. 

CAIN — Possession, or possessed. 

CAIN AN — Possessor or purchaser ; or, one that laments ; 
or, the builder of a nest. 

CALAH — Favorable, opportunity; or as the verdure, or 
green fruit. A city. Gen., 10-12. 

CALEB — A dog, or crow, or a basket ; or, as the heart. 

CALEB-EPHRATAH — A place so called by conjunc- 
tion of the names Caleb and his wife Eph- 
rath. See EPHRATAH. 



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CALNEH — Our consummation or all we ; or, as mur- 
muring. 

CALNO — Our consummation ; according to others alto- 
gether himself. 

CALVARY— The place of a scull. 
CAMON — His resurrection. 

CAN A — Zeal or emulation ; otherwise, possession, 
lamentation, the nest, cane or staff. 

CANAAN — A merchant, a trader. He zuas the son of 
Ham, and gave name to the land of Canaan. 
The Canaanites zvere a wicked people for 
they descended from a wicked father. Gen., 

13-7- 

CANAANITE. 

CANDACE — Who possesses contrition ; or, pure posses- 
sion. 

CAPERNAUM — The field of repentance or city of com- 
fort ; otherzvise, the propitiation of the pen- 
itent ; or the town of pleasure, the hand- 
some city. 

CAPHTOR — A sphere, a buckle, a hand, a palm, doves, 
or those that seek and inquire. 

CAPPADOCIA— /n Hebrezv CAPHTOR, zvhich see. 

CARCAS — The covering of a lamb ; or, the lamb of the 
throne. Esth., i-io. 

CARCHEMISH — A lamb, as taken away, withdrawn, or 
carried off. 



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CARMEL — A circumcised lamb; otherwise harvest, full 
ears of corn, vineyard of God, excellent 
vineyard. 

CARMELITE. 

CARMI — My vineyard ; or, the knowledge of the waters ; 
or, the lamb of the waters. 

CARPUS— Fruit, or fruitful. Greek, 

CASIPHIA — Money, or covetousness. 

CEDRON— Black, or sad. 

CENCHREA— Millet, small pulse. 

CEPHAS— A rock or stone. 

CESAR — A Latin name, from the word caedo, cut, be- 
cause he zuas cut from his mother's womb; 
or from the word Caesaries, a head of hair, 
zvhich he was said to be born with. 

CESAREA— A bush of hair. 

CHALCOL — Who nourishes, consumes and sustains the 
whole. 

CHALDEA — As demons, or as robbers, or breasts or 
fields. 

CHALDEAN. 

CHALDEES. 

CHARRAN — A singing, or calling out, or the heat of 
wrath. 

CHEBAR — Strength or power. Ezek., 10-15-20. 

CHEDORLAOMER— As a generation of servitude; 
otherwise, the roundness of the sheaf. 
Gen., 14-4. 



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CHE^^IARniS — The name of BaaVs priests. 

CHEAIOSH — As handling or stroking, or as withdraw- 
ing or taking away. 

CHENANIA — Preparation, or disposition or strength 
or rectitude of the Lord. 

CHERETHI]\IS — Who cuts, who tears away and exter- 
minates. 

CHERETHITES— 5^^ CHERETHIMS.. 

CHERITH — Cutting, piercing, slaying, 

CHESED — As a devil, or as a destroyer, or as a breast 
or nipple. Gen., 22-22. 

CHILEAE — Totality of the father, or the perfection of 
the father. 2 Sam., 3-3. 

CHILION — Furnished, complete, perfect. 

CHIL^MAD — As teaching or learning. 

CHIMHA:\I— As they, or like to them. 

CHIOS — Open, or opening. 

CHISLEU — Rashness, confidence, the flanks. 

CHITTI^^I — Those that bruise, or gold ; or, staining or 
dyeing. 

CHIUX — An Egyptian God. li^Jiom some think to he 
Saturn. 

CHLOE— Green herb. 

CHORAZIN — The secret, or here is a mystery. 

CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM— Ethiopian ; or' blackness 
of iniquities. 

CHUZA — The seer, or prophet ; or Ethiopian. The 
husband of Joanna. 



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CILICIA — Which rolls or overturns. 

CLAUDA — A broken voice, a lamentable voice. It is an 

island. Acts., 27-16. 
CLAUDIA — Lame. 2 Tim., 4-21. 

CLEMENT— Mild, good, modest, merciful. Phil., 4-3. 
CLEOPHAS — The whole glory; or, glory altogether. 
COLOSSE — Punishment, correction; from the Greek 

zvord meaning I punish. 
CONIAH— The strength, or stability of the Lord. 
CORINTH — Which is satisfied, or ornament, or beauty. 
CORNITHIANS. 
CORNELIUS — Of a horn. Or as if it were the beam 

of the sun. Having a vision he sent for 

Peter, who first preached the gospel to the 

Gentiles. Acts., 10. 
COZBI — A liar ; or, as sliding away. 
CRESCENS — Growing, increasing. 
CRETE — Carnal, fleshly. 
CRETES. 
CRETIANS. 
CRISPUS— Curled. 
CUSH — Ethiopians, or black. 
CUSHAN — Ethiopia, black, blackness, heat. 
CUSHI — The same, 
CYPRUS — Fair, or fairness. 

CYRENE — A wall, or coldness, or meeting, or floor. 
CYRENIANS— P^o/>/^ of Gyrene, 
CYRENIUS— Who governs. 
CYRLTS — As miserable, or as heir ; or, the belly. 



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DABBASHETH — Flowing with honey ; or causing 
infamy. 

DABERATH — Word, thing ; or, a bee ; or, submissive 
and obedient. 

DAGO N— Corn ; or, a fish. 

DALMANUTHA — A bucket; or exhaustion, leanness, 
branch. A country, Mark, 8-10. 

DALMATIA — Deceitful lamps or vain brightness. 

DAMARIS— A little woman. 

DAMASCUS— A sack full of blood, or, similitude of 
burning, or of the kiss, or of the pot. 

DAN — Judgment, or he that judges. 

DANIEL — Judgment of God ; or God is my judge. A 
prophet descended from the royal family of 
David, zvho was carried captive to Babylon 
when he was very young. He interpreted 
Nebuchadnezzar' s dreams, zvas cast into 
the lion's den and saved, but his adversaries 
were devoured. He was favoured with the 
vision of the four beasts, and of the ram 
and he-goat; Gabriel informeth him of the 
seventy weeks, which is a famous prophecy 
of the time of the coming of the great 
Messiah. 



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DARA — Generation, or house of the shepherd, or of the 
companion, or, race of wickedness. i 
Chron., 2-6. 

DARIUS — He that inquires and informs himself. The 
king of the Medes. Dan., 5-31. 

DATHAN— Laws, or rites. 

DAVID — Beloved dear. The son of Jesse, the king of 
Jiidah and Israel, who was a great type of 
the Messiah, the King and spiritual head 
of his church. It is taken for Christ him- 
self, who zvas descended of the family of 
David. Jer., 30-9. Ezek., 34-23 and 37- 
24-25. 

DEBORAH— A word, or a bee. / 

DECAPOLIS — A Greek word compounded of two 

others meaning ten and a city, because this 

country contained ten cities. 
DEDAN — Their beasts, or their friendship, or their 

uncle ; or, a judge. 
DEDANIM— T/i^ descendants of Dedan. 
DELILAH — Poor, small, or head of hair; or, bucket. 
DEMAS— Popular. 

DEMETRIUS — Belonging to Ceres, or to corn. 
DERBE — A sting. The name of a city. Acts, 14-6. 
DEUEL — The knowledge or science of God. Nuni., 1-14. 
DIANA — The Latin word may signify luminous. Greek 

zvord signifies perfect. 



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DIBON — Understanding, abundance of knowledge, or of 
building. 

DIBON-GAD — Abundance of sons happy and powerful ; 
or, happy, or great understanding, or 
edifice. 

DIDYMUS— A twin. 

DIMON— Where it is red. 

DINAH — Judgment, or who judges. 

DINHABAH — His judgment in her, or she gives judg- 
ment; or, who gives judgment. Gen., 36-32. 

DIONYSIUS — Divinely touched. From Greek word 
meaning divine, and I strike. 

DIOTREPHES— Nourished by Jupiter, or Jupiter's 
foster child, from Greek word meaning of 
Jupiter, and zvord meaning a fosterchild. 

DOEG — Who acts with uneasiness ; or, a fisherman. 

DOR — Generation or habitation. 

DORCAS — The fem.ale of a roe-buck. Greek. 

DOTHAN— The law, or custom. 

DRUSILLA — Watered by the dew, from Greek word 
meaning the dew. 

DUMAH — Silence, or resemblance. 

DURAH — Generation, or habitation. 



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EASTER — The passover, a feast of the Jews. This 
word is not properly translated, for in the 
original, Acts, 12-4, it is the Greek word 
meaning the passover; which was a yearly 
feast among the Jews established in com- 
memoration of the coming forth out of 
Egypt, and of the angeVs passing by and 
sparing the houses of the Israelites 
sprinkled with blood, when the first born of 
the Egyptians were slain, Easter was a 
goddess of the Saxons in honour of zvhich 
sacrifices were offered about that time of 
the year. The word Easter seems not to 
have been properly used in the English 
Bible or English Liturgy. 

EBAL — A heap, or collection of old age ; or, a mass that 
runs away and disperses. 

EBED — A servant, or labourer. 

EBED-MELECH— The king's servant. 

EBEN-EZER— The stone of help. 

EBER — One that passes, or a passage ; or, anger, wrath. 

EBIASAPH— A father that gathers together, or adds; 
or, my father who has added, i Chron., 
6-23. 



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ED — Witness. 

EDEN — Pleasure, or delight. 

EDOM — Red, bloody, earthy, or red earth. 

EDOMITE. 

EDREI — A great mass, or cloud, death of the wicked. 

The city of Og. Deut., 1-4. 
EGLAH — Heifer, chariot, round. 
EGLAIM — Drops of the sea. 
EGLON— r/i^ same as EGLAH. 
EGYPT — In Hebrew J Mizraim ; that binds or straitens ; 

or that troubles or oppresses. 
EGYPTIAN. 
EHUD — He that praises. 
EKRON — Barrenness, tore away. 
EKRONITES. 

ELAH — An oak, a curse, oath, imprecation. 
ELAM — A young man, a virgin ; or, secret, or an age. 
ELAMITES. 

ELATH — A hind, or strength, or an oak. 
EL-BETHEL— The God of Bethel. 
ELDAD — Loved of God, or favoured of God. 
ELEALEH — Ascension of God, or burnt-offering of 

God. 
ELEAZAR— The help of God, or court of God. 
EL-ELOHE — Israel, God the God of Israel. 
ELHANAN — Grace, gift or mercy of God, 
ELI-ELI— My God, my God. 
ELI — The offering or lifting up. 



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ELIAB — God my father, or my God father. 

ELIADA— The knowledge of God. 

ELIAKIM — The resurrection of God ; or, the God of the 

resurrection or of strength ; or, God the 

revenger. 

ELIAM — The people of God, or the God of the people. 
ELIAS— 5-^^ ELIJAH. 

ELIASHIB — The God of conversion ; or, my God will 
bring back. 

ELIATHAH — Thou art my God ; or, my God comes. 
The son of Neman, i Chron., 25-4. 

ELIEZER — Help or court of my God. 

ELIHOREPH— The God of winter; or, the God of 
youth. 

ELIHU — He is my God himself. 

ELIJAH — God the Lord ; or the strong Lord. A famous 
prophet who foretold a great famine and 
was fed by the ravens. 1 Kings, 17-6. He 
zvas raised up by God to oppose idolatry, 
and particularly the worship of Baal, intro- 
duced into Israel by Jezebel and Ahab. i 
Kings, 18. He was taken up into heaven in 
a zvhirhvind. Our Lord Jesus Christ in- 
terprets the Elijah promised in Mai., 4-5 
to be John the Baptist. Mat., 11-10-14. 
Who came in the spirit and pozver of Elijah. 

ELIKA — Pelican of God. 2 Sam., 23-25. 



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ELIM — The rams ; or, the strong, or the stags, or the 

valleys. 
ELIMEI.ECH— My God is king. 
ELIOENAI — Towards him are my eyes ; or towards him 

are my fountains ; or towards him are my 

poverty and my misery, i Chron., 3-23. 
ELIPHALET — The God of deliverance ; or, my God 

who puts to flight. 
ELIPHAZ — The endeavour of God. 
ELISABETH — God hath sworn, the oath of God, or the 

fullness of God. 
ELISHA — Salvation of God or God that saves. The 

name of a prophet zvhom Elijah anointed 

in his room, i Kings, 19-16. 
ELISHAH — So7i of Javan, Gen., 10-4. Or the isles of 

Elishah. Ezek., 27-7, It is God; or, the 

lamb of God ; otherwise, God that gives 

help. 
ELISHAMAH— God hearing. 
ELISHEBA— 6^^^ ELISABETH. 
ELI SHU A — God is my salvation. 

ELIHUD — God is my praise or the praise of my God. 
ELIZUR — God is my strength, my rock ; or, stone, or 

rock of God. Num., 1-5. 
ELHANAN — God the zealous ; or, the possession, or 

the reed of God. 
ELMODAM— The God of measure ; or, the God of the 

garment. 



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ELNATHAN— God has given, or the gift of God. 

ELON — Oak, or grove, o^ strong. 

ELUL — Cry, outcry. The sixth month of the Hebrew 
year. 

ELUZAI — God is my strength, i Chron., 12-5. 

ELYMAS — This name in Arabic signifies a magician. 

EMIMS — Fears of terrors ; or, formidable, or people. 

EMMAUS — People despised, or obscure. 

EMMOR— An ass. 

EN-DOR — Fountain ; or, eye of generation, or habita- 
tion. 

ENEAS — Laudable, from the Greek verb meaning I 
praise. 

EN-EGLAIM — The fountain, or the eye of the calves, 
or of the chariots, or of roundness. 

EN-GEDI — Fountain, or eye of the goat, or of happi- 
ness. 

EN-MISHPAT— Fountain of judgment. Gen., 14-7. 

ENOCH — Dedicated, or disciplined, and well regulated. 
The son of fared and father of Methuselah, 
Enoch and Elijah were translated to heaven 
zvithout seeing death. It is said that Enoch 
walked with God, and he was not ; for God 
. took him. He lived in comfortable com- 
munion with God; God manifesting him- 
self to him, and he having a lively sense of 
God's presence alzvays upon his spirit, and 
seeking to approve himself to God in all 
things. Gen., 5-24. Heb., 11-5. 



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ENON — Cloud or mass of darkness ; or, his fountain ; 
or, his eye. 

ENOS — Fallen man, subject to all kind of evil in soul 
and body. 

EN-ROGEL— The fuller's fountain. 

EN-SHEMESH — Fountain, or eye of the sun. Josh., 
18-17. 

EPAPHRAS — Covered with foam. Greek, 

EPAPHRODrrUS— Agreeable, handsome. One whom 
Paul sent to the Philippians. 

EPENETUS — Laudable, worthy of praise. One that 
first embraced the gospel in Asia, 

EPHAH — Weary, tired ; or, to fly in the air as a bird. 
The son of Midian. 

EPHES-DAMMIN— The portion or effusion of blood, 
or drop of blood. 

EPHESIANS— r/i^ people of Ephesus. 

EPHESUS — Desirable, chief city of Asia Minor. 

EPHPHATHA— Be opened. 

EPHRAIM — That brings fruit, or that grows. 

EPHRAIMITE. 

EPHRATAH — xA^bundance, or bearing fruits or increas- 
ing. It is believed that the city Etiphratah, 
otherwise, called Beth-lehem, took its name 
from Ephratah, Caleb's wife. 

EPHRATH— 5^^ EPHRATAH. 

EPHRATHITE — An inhabitant of Ephratah, or a de- 
scendant from Ephraim. 



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EPHRON— Dust. 

EPICUREANS — Who gives assistance ; from the Greek 

word meaning I help, I assist. A sect of 

Heathen philosophers, 
ER — Watch, or enemy. 
ERASTUS — Lovely, or amiable. 
ERECH — Length, or which lengthens ; otherzvise, health, 

physic. A city. Gen., lo-io. 
ESAIAS— ^^^-^ ISAIAH. 
ESAR-H ADDON— That binds joy, or that closes the 

point. 
ESAU — He that does, or acts, or finishes. 
EZEK — Contention. 

ESH-BAAL— The fire of the idol, i Chron., 8-33. 
ESHCOL — A bunch of grapes. 
ESHTAOL — Stout, strong woman. Josh., 15-33. 
ESHTEMOA — Which is heard; or, the bosom of a 

woman. A city. Sam., 30-28. 
ESLI — Near me ; otherzvise, he that separates. 
ESROM — The dart of joy; or, division of the song. 
ESTHER — Secret or hidden. 

ETAM — Their bird ; or, their covering, i Chron., 4-3. 
ETHAM — Their strength, their sign. 
ETHAN — Strong ; or, the gift of the island. 
ETHANIM — Strong or valiant. The seventh month of 

the ecclesiastical year of the Hebrews. 
ETHBAAL — Towards the idol, or with Baal ; or, he that 

rules and possesses, i Kings, 16-31. 



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ETHIOPIA — In Hebrew Cush, blackness ; in Greek 
signifies heat, burning ; from Greek words 
meaning, I burn and face. 

ETHIOPIAN— ETHIOPIANS. 

EUBULUS — A prudent, a good counsellor. Greek. 

EVE — Living, or enlivening. 

EVIL-MERODACH— The fool of Merodach, or despis- 
ing the bitterness of the fool ; or, other- 
wise, the fool grinds bitterly. 

EUNICE— Good victory. 

EUODIAS — Sweet scent, or that smells well. 

EUPHRATES — That makes fruitful, or grows. 

EUTYCHUS — Happy, fortunate ; from Greek words 
meaning, good and fortune. 

EZEKIEL — The strength of God, or supported of God, 
or God is my strength. 

EZEL — Going abroad, walk ; or, distillation. 

EZION-GEBER— The wood of the man, or of the 
strong; or, counsel of the man. A city, 
I Kings, 9-26. 

EZRA — A helper. In his hook we have the history of 
his return from Babylon to lerusalem after 
the seventy years captivity. Zernbbabel re- 
stored the temple; Ezra the worship of 
God; Nehemiah the city of lerusalem. 



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F 



FELIX — Happy, or prosperous. 
FESTUS — Festival, or joyful. 
FORTUNATUS — Happy, or prosperous. 



GAAL — Contempt, or abomination. 

GAASH — Tempest, commotion, tumult, or overthrow. 

A mountain. Josh., 24-30. 
GABBATHA — High, or elevated. In Greek a word 

meaning, paved with stones. 
GABRIEL — God is my strength, or, man of God, or 

strength of God, or my strong God. 
GAD — A band, or happy, or armed and prepared. 
GADARENES— Surrounded, walled. 
GADDI — My happiness, my army, my troops ; otherwise, 

a kid. The son of Susi, Num., 13-12. 
GADDIEL — Goat of God ; or, the Lord is my happiness, 

or my army. Num., 13-10. 
GADITES. 

GAIUS — Lord ; or an earthy man. 
GALATIA— White, of the color of milk. 



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GALATIANS. 

GALBANUM — A sort of gum, or sweet spice. 

GALEED — The heap of witness. 

GALILEE — Wheel, revoUition, or heap ; or, revolution 
of the wheel. 

GALILEANS. 

GALLIM — Who heap up, who cover, who roll. 

GALLIC — He that sucks, or lives upon milk. 

GAMALIEL — Recompense of God, or camel of God, or 
weaned of God. 

GAMMADIMS — Soldiers placed in the towers of Tyrus, 
The word in Hebrezv signifies a ciihit, 
whence some call them pigmies, or dwarfs. 
Others think that the word is Syriac, and 
signifies bold and courageous men. Others 
. say they zvere men who came from Gam- 
made, a town of Phenicia. 

GAT AM — Their lowing ; or, their touch ; or, the lowing 
of the perfect. Grandson of Esau. Gen., 
36-11. 

GATH— A press. 

GATH-RIMMON— The press of the granate; or, ex- 
alted press. Josh., 21-25. 

GAZA — Strong, or a goat. 

GEBA— A hill, or cup. 

GEBAL — Bound, or limit. 

GEBIM — Grasshoppers ; or, height. 

GEDALIAH — God is my greatness ; or, fringe of the 
Lord. 



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GEHAZI — Valley of sight, or vale of the breast. 

GEMxARIAH — Completion, or accomplishment of the 
Lord. 

GENNESARET — The garden of the prince ; otherwise, 
protection of the prince, or of him that 
governs. 

GENUBATH — Theft, robbery ; or, garden, or protection 
of the daughter, i Kings, 11-20. 

GERA — Pilgrimage ; or, combat, dispute. 

GERAH — The twentieth part of a shekel. 

GERAR— See GERA. 

GERGESENES — Those who come from pilgrimage, or 
from fight. A people beyond Galilee. 

GERIZIM— Cutters. 

GERSHOM — A stranger there ; or, a traveler of repu- 
tation. 

GERSHON — His banishment ; or, the change of pil- 
grimage. 

GESHUR — The sight of the valley ; the vale of the ox ; 
or, the vale of the wall. 

GESHURITES. 

GEHER — The vale of trial, or of searching; or, the 
press of inquiry, or of contemplation. The 
son of Aram. Gen., 10-23. 

GETHSEMANE— A very fat valley ; or, the valley of 
oil. 

GIAH — To guide, draw out, produce ; or, a sigh or 
groan. 



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GIBEAH— A hill. 

GIBEON — Hill or cup ; otherwise, that which is without^ 
or that which is lifted up ; or the elevation 
of iniquity. 

GIBEO^ITES— People of Gibeon. 

GIDEON — He that bruises and breaks ; or, cutting oflf 
iniquity. 

GIDEONI— 6^^^ GIDEON. 

GIHON — Valley of grace ; or, breast, or impetuous. 

GILBOA — Revolution of iniquity, or recollection of 
swelling and inflammation. 

GILEAD — The heap or mass of testimony. 

GILEADITES. 

GILGAL — \^''heel, revolution, heap ; otherzuise, revolu- 
tion of the wheel, or heap of heap. 

GILOH — He that rejoices, that overturns, that passes, 
that reveals, or discovers. A city. Josh., 

GILONITE. 

GIRGASHITE — Who arrives from pilgrimage. 

GITTITE — A wine-press. 

GOB — Cistern, or grasshopper, or emiinence. 

GOG — Roof, covering. 

GOLAN — Passage, or revolution. 

GOLGOTHA— A heap of sculls. 

GOLIATH — Passage, revolution, discovery, heap. A 

giant slain by David. 
GOMER — To finish, complete, accomplish ; otherwise, 

consuming a consumer. 



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GOMORRAH — A rebellious people ; or, the people that 

fear. 
GOSHEN — Approaching, drawing near. 
GOZAN — Fleece or pasture; or, who nourishes the body. 
GRECIA — The country of the Greeks. 
GRECIANS. 
GREECE. 
GREEK. 
GREEKS. 
GUR — The young of a beast; otherwise ^ dwelling, 

assembly, or fear. 



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HABAKKUK — He that embraces ; or, a wrestler. 

Hab., i-i. 
HACHALIAH— Who waits for the Lord ; or, the hook 

of the Lord. Neh., lo-i. 
HACHILAH — My hope is in her ; or, hook in her. 
HADAD — Joy, noise, clamour, cry of mariners. Gen., 

36-35. I Chron., 1-30. 
HADAEZER — The beauty of assistance. 
HADADRIMMON— The^ voice of height. Rimmon 

was a God of the Syrians; the invocation 

of the God Rimmon, 
HADASSAH— A myrtle, or joy. 



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HADORAM — Their beauty, their power, their cloke ; or, 

praise, or a cry lifted up. 
HADRACH — Point, or joy of tenderness ; or, your 

chamber. 
HAGAR — A stranger, or that fears. 
HAGARENES— 0/ the family of Hagar. 
HAGARITES— T/i^ same. 
HAGGAI — Feast, solemnity, turning round. 
HAGGITH— Rejoicing. 
HALLELUIAH — Praise the Lord, or praise to the 

Lord. 
HAM — Hot, heat, or brown. 
HAMAN — Noise, tumuh; or, he that prepares. 
HAMATH— Anger, heat or a w^all. 
HAMMEDATHA— He that troubles the law ; or, meas- 
ure. 
HAMON-GOG— The multitude of Gog. 
HAMOR — An ass, or clay or wine. 
HAMUTAL — The shadow of his heat; or, the heat of 

the dew. 2 Kings, 23-31. 
H ANAMEEL — The grace that comes from God ; or, 

pity, or gift of God. 
HANANEEL— Grace, mercy, gift of God. 
HANANI — My grace, my mercy ; or, he has showed me 

mercy. 
HANANIAH — Grace, mercy, gift of the Lord. 
HANNAH — Gracious, m.erciful ; or taking rests. The 

wife of Elkanah, and mother of Samuel. 



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HANOCH— Dedicated. 

HANUM — Gracious, merciful ; or, he that rests. 

HARAN — Mountain, or mountainous country ; or, 

which is enclosed. The son of Terah. 
HARAN— A place. See CHARRAN. 
HARBONAH — His destruction, or his sword, or his 

dryness ; or, the anger of him that builds, 

or that understands. 
HAROD — Astonishment, fear. 
HAROSHETH — Agriculture, silence, deafness ; or, 

vessel of earth ; or, forest. 
HASHMONAH — Diligence, or enumeration ; or, 

embassy, or present. Num., 33-29. 
HATACH— He that strikes. Esth., 4-5. 
HAVILAH — That suffers pain; that brings forth; or, 

that speaks, or declares to her. Gen., 10-7. 
HAVOTH-JAIR— The villages that enlighten, or that 

shew forth light. Num., 32-41. 
HAZAEL— That sees God. 
HAZARMAVETH— Court, or entry, or dwelling of 

death. The son of Joktam. Gen., 10-26. 
HAZELELPONI — Shade, and sorrow of countenance : 

or, submersion of the face. 
HAZEROTH — Villages, hamlets ; court, or porch. 
HAZOR— Court, or law. 
HEBER — One that passes, or a passage ; otherzvise, 

anger, wrath. 
HEBREWS — Descended from Heber. 



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HEBRON — Society, friendship, enchantment. 
HEGAI, or HEGE — Meditation, word, taking away, 

separation, groaning. 
HELAM — Their army, or their trouble, their strength; 

or, expectation ; or, dream. 
HELBON— Milk, or fatness. 
HELDAI— The world. 
HELI — Ascending, or climbing up. 
HELKATH-HAZZURIM— The field of strong men, 

or of rocks. 
HEMAN — Their trouble, their tumult. The son of 

Lotan. Gen., 2>^-22. 
HEMAN — Much, or in great number ; otherwise ^ 

tumult. I Kings, 4-31. 
HEN — Grace ; or, quiet ; or, rest. 
HEPHZI-BAH— My pleasure, or delight in her. The 

mother of Manasseh. 2 Kings, 21-1. The 

tr^te church thus called. Isa., 62-4. 
HERMES — Mercury, or grain, or refuge. Greek, 
HERMOGENES — Begotten of Mercury, or generation 

of Lucre. Greek. 
HERMON— Anathema, destruction. 
HERMONITES. 
HEROD — The glory of the skin, from Greek word 

meaning favor, glory, and the skin ; or, son 

of the hero. 
HERODIANS— See Appellatives. 
HERODIAS— T/^^ wife of Herod. 



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HERODION — Song of Juno; from Greek words mean- 

ing Juno, and a song ; or, the conqueror of 

heroes. 
HESHBON — Invention, industry, or thought ; or he 

that hastens to understand, or to build. 
HETH — Trembling, or fear. 
HETHLON — Fearful dwelling; or, his covering. The 

name of a city. Ezek., 47-15. 
HEZEKIAH — Strong of the Lord ; or, taken and sup- 
ported by the Lord. 
HEZRON — The dart of joy; or, division of the song. 
HIDDEKEL — A sharp voice, or sound. 
HIEL — God lives, or the life of God. 
HIERAPOLIS — Holy city; from Greek zvords meaning 

holy and a city. Col., 4-13. 
HIGGAION— Meditation, consideration. 
HILKIAH — God is my portion ; according to others, 

the Lord's gentleness. 
HILLEL — He that praises ; or, folly ; or, Lucifer. The 

father of Ahdon, Judg., 12-13. 
HINNOM — There they are ; or, their riches. 
HIRAM — Exaltation of life ; or, their whiteness ; or, 

their liberty ; or, he that destroys, or 

anathematizes. 
HITTITES — Who is broken, or fears. Descendants of 

Heth, the son of Canaan. Gen., 10-15. 
HIVITES — Wicked, bad, or wickedness. 
HOBAB — Favoured and beloved. 



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HOBAH — Love, friendship, or secrecy. Gen., 14-15. 

HOGLAH — His festival, or his dance. 

HOPHNI— He that covers ; or, my fist. 

HOR — Who conceives, or shows. 

HOREB — Desert, soHtude, destruction, dryness. 

HOR-HAGIDGAD— The hill of felicity. 

HORMAH — Devoted or consecrated to God ; utter 

destruction. 
HORONAIM— Anger, or raging. 
HORONITE— Anger, fury, or liberty. 
HOSEA, and HOSHEA — Saviour, or salvation. 
HUL — Pain, infirmity, bringing forth children, sand, or 

expectation. The son of Aram. Gen., 

10-23. 
HULDAH — The world. A prophetess, 2 Kings, 22-14. 
HUR — Liberty, whiteness, hole, cavern. 
HUSHAI — Their haste, or their sensuality, or their 

silence. 
HUZZAB— Molten. 
HYMENEUS— Nuptial, or marriage. 



IBHAR — Election, or he that is chosen. 

ICHABOD — Where is the glory? or, woe to the glory. 

ICONIUM — A city, from Greek I come. 



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IDDO— His hand, his power, his praise, his witness, his 

ornament. 
IDUMEA— Red, earthy. 
IGDALIA — The greatness of the Lord ; or, the Lord 

shall exalt me, or make me great. A man 

of God. Jer., 35-4. 
I JON — Look, eye, fountain. A city, i Kings, 15-20. 
ILLYRICUM— Joy, rejoicing. 

I ML AH — Plentitude, or repletion; or, circumcism. 
IMMANUEL — A name given to our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Isa., 7-14. It signifies, God with us. 
INDIA — Praise, law. A. considerable country in the 

east. Esth., i-i. 
IPHEDEIAH — The redemption of the Lord, i Chron., 

8-25. 
IRA — City, watch, spoil ; or, effusion, or heap of vision. 

One of David's rulers. 2 Sam., 20-26. 
IRAD — Wild ass ; or, heap of descents, or of empire. 

The son of Enoch. Gen., 4-18. 
IRIJAH — The fear of the Lord, or vision of the Lord, 

or protection of the Lord. Jer., 37-13. 
ISAAC — Laughter. The son of Abraham and Sarah, 

being the seed promised to them by God. 

Abraham, for the trial of his faith zvas 

commanded to offer up his son Isaac, and 

went to the place appointed, Mt. Moriah, 

where afterzvards the temple was built; and 

binding Isaac, and taking a knife to kill 



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him as a sacriUce, he was staid by the angel 
of the Lord, and Isaac zvas exchanged for 
a ram, caught in a thicket. Isaac taketh 
Rebekah to wife, by whom he had two sons, 
Esau and Iacob;he sends his eldest son Esau 
for venison, and Rebekah instructs Jacob 
the younger to obtain the blessing, 

ISAIAH — The salvation of the Lord. As the priests 
and Levites were the ordinary teachers of 
the Jewish church, so God sometimes raised 
up and sent extraordinary messengers, the 
prophets. Among these Isaiah is justly 
accounted the most eminent, both for the 
majesty of his style and the excellency of 
his matter, wherein he so fully and clearly 
describes the person, offices, the sufferings 
and kingdom of Christ, that he is com- 
monly called the EvangeHcal Prophet. 

ISCAH — He that anoints ; or, that covers, or protects. 
The daughter of Haran. Gen., 11-29. 

ISCARIOT — Is thought to signify a native of the town 
of Iscarioth. A man of murder ; from 
Heb. ish, a man, and Heb. careth, he that 
cuts off, or exterminates. Others maintain 
that the surname given to Judas signifies 
that he was of the tribe of Issachar, a word 
signifying recompense, restitution. This 
traitor verified his nativity, by receiving the 



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price of the blood of his Master Jesus 
Christ; from the word, Heb. sachar, to re- 
ceive a recompense. 

ISHBAK — Who is empty or exhausted ; or, who is for- 
saken or abandoned. One of Abraham's 
sons. Gen., 25-2. 

ISHBI-BENOB— He that sits in the phophecy, or in the 
word, or in the production ; otherwise, con- 
version, or blowing or respiration in proph- 
ecy. A giant. 2 Sam., 21-16. 

ISH-BOSHETH — A man of shame ; or, the retarding 
of the man. 

ISHMAEL— God who hears. 

ISHMAELITES— T/i^ poetry 0/ Ishmael. 

ISRAEL — A prince with God, or prevaiHng with God; 
or, one that wrestleth with God; as if it 
had been written Ish-raeL The name given 
by God to Jacob. Gen., 32-28 and 35-10. 
Israel is often in scripture taken for the 
people of God. Exod., 6-6-7. 

ISRAELITES — The posterity of Israel. 

ISSACHAR — Price, reward, or recompense. 

ITALIAN — Belonging to Italy. 

ITALY — A Latin word, that has its original from Vitu- 
lus, or vitula, because this country abounded 
in calves and heifers. According to others, 
it is taken from a king called Italus. 



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ITHAMAR — Island of the palm tree ; or, of palms ; or, 
changing of the isle ; or, woe to the palm, 
or to the change. 

ITHIEL — God with me ; or, sign, coming of God. 

ITHREAM — Excellence of the people. 2 Sam., 3-5. 

ITUREA — Which is guarded ; or, a country of mount- 
ains. 

IVAH— Iniquity. 



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Jx\ALA]\I — Who is hidden ; or, young man ; or their 
kids. Son of Esau. Gen., 36-5. 

JAAZANL\ — Whom the Lord will hear, or who is 
attentive to the Lord ; or, the balances, the 
arms, the nourishment of the Lord. 

JABAL — Which glides away; or, that brings, or that 
produces. 

JABBOK — Evacuation, or dissipation. 

JABESH — Dryness, confusion, shame. 

JABESH-GILEAD. 

JABEZ — Sorrow, or trouble. 

JABIX — He that understands, he that builds. 

JABNEEL — Building of God ; or, understanding of God. 
A city. Josh., 19-33. 

JACHIN — He that strengthens and makes steadfast. 



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JACOB — He that supplants or undermines ; or, the heel. 
The son of Isaac, and the father of the 
twelve patriarchs; he prevailed in prayer 
with God, and was called Israel; he went in 
the time of the famine zvith all his family 
into Egypt, and his son loseph gave them 
habitation and maintenance. Jacob blessed 
his children before his death, and ordered 
them to bury him, in Canaan, 

JAEL — He that ascends, or a kid. 

JAH — The everlasting God. 

JAHAZ — Quarrel, dispute; or, the going out of the 
Lord. 

]ARAZK—The same. 

JAIR — My light; or, who diffuses light; or, is enlight- 
ened. 

]AIR\]S— The same. 

JAMBRES— The sea with poverty. 

] AMES— The same as JACOB. 

JANNA — Who speaks, or who answers ; otherwise, 
affliction, misery, or impoverished. 

JANNES— T/i^ same. 

JAPHETH — He that persuades, or extends, or hand- 
some. 

JAPHIA — Which enlightens, appears, or shews ; or, 
which groans. The son of David. 2 Sam., 

5-15. 
JAREB — A revenger. 



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JARED — He that descends ; or, he that rules or com- 
mands. 

JASHER— Righteous. 

JASON — He that cures, or that gives medicines ; from 
the Greek word meaning health, or cure. 

JAVAN — He that deceives, or makes sorrowful ; other- 
wise , clay, dirt. 

JAZER — Assistance, or he that helps. 

JEBUS — Which treads under foot, or contemns. A city 
the same as Jerusalem. Judg., 19-10. 

JEBUSITES — Inhabitants of Jebus. 

JECONIAH — Preparation of the Lord, or steadfastness 
of the Lord. 

JEDIDAH — Well beloved, or amiable. The mother of 
Josiah, 2 Kings, 22-1. 

JEDIDIAH— Beloved of the Lord. 

JEDUTHUN — His law ; or, who gives praise. 

JEGAR-SAHADUTHA— The heap of witness. 

JEHOAHAZ — The prize, or possession of the Lord ; or, 
the Lord that sees. 

JEHOASH — The fire of the Lord ; or, the victim of the 
Lord. 

JEHOIACHIN — Preparation, or strength of the Lord. 

JEHOIDA— The knowledge of the Lord. 

JEHOIAKIM — The resurrection, or confirmation of the 
Lord. 

JEHONADAB— 5-^^ JONADAB. 

JEHORAM — Exaltation of the Lord ; or, rejected of the 
Lord. 



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JEHOSHAPHAT— God judges, or the judgment of the 
Lord. 

JEHOVAH — The incommunicable name of God. Self- 
existing. 

JEHOVAH-JIREH— The Lord will see or provide ; the 
Lord will be manifested or seen. 

JEHOVAH-NISSI— The Lord my banner. 

JEHOVAH-SHALOM— The Lord send peace. 

JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH— The Lord is there. 

JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU— The Lord our righteousness. 

JEHU — He that is, or who exists. 

JEHUDIJAH — The praise of the Lord. The wife of 
Ezra. I Chron., 4-18. 

JEMIMA — Handsome as the day. One of Job's daugh- 
ters. Job, 42-14 

JEPHTHAH — He that opens, or he will open. 

JEPHUNNEH— He that beholds. 

JERAH — The moon, or month ; otherwise, to scent or 
smell. Son of Joktan. Gen., 10-26. 

JERAMEEL— Mercy of God ; or, the love of God. 

JEREMIAH — Exaltation or grandeur of the Lord ; or, 
who exalts, or gives glory to the Lord. He 
was called to the extraordinary ofhce of a 
prophet in his younger years, and con- 
tinued in that office for at least forty years 
together. In his time iniquity did exceed- 
ingly abound in the land of Judah. He 
earnestly and frequently calls the people to 



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repentance, both by his reproofs and threat- 
enings for their sins. He denounces the 
captivity of the people by the Babylonians, 
for ZK'hich he zcas put in prison; he lived 
to see Jiis prophecy fuliiUed. But for the 
comfort and support of the faithful, he 
foretells their return after seventy years, 
and the enlargement of the church by 
Christ. His style is generally the most 
plain of any of the prophets. 
JERICHO — His moon, or month : or, his sweet smell. 

JERIMOTH — Emnnences ; or, he that fears, that sees, 
that rejects death, i Chron., y-y. 

JEROBOAM — Fighting against, or increasing the 
people. 

JERUBBAAL — He that disputes about Baal; or, that 
revenges the idol ; or, let Baal defend his 
cause. 

JERUBBESHETH— Let the idol of confusion defend 
itself. 

JERUSALEM — The vision, or possession of peace. It 
was the chief city of Judea, and zvas first 
called Salem, zvhere Melchizedek zvas king. 
Gen., 14-18. It was also called lebus, and 
zi'as possessed by the Jebiisites, zvho held 
therein the fort of Sion, till it was taken 
from them by David. Judg., 10-6. i 
Chron., 11-4, 5, 7. Here also was Mount 



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Moriah, near Mount Sion, whereon Solo- 
mon built the temple, and where Abraham 
was commanded to offer his son Isaac; 
Abraham named the place Jehovah- jireh, 
because the providence of God zvas there 
eminently seen. 2 Chron., 3-1. Gen., 22- 
2-14. Which word jireh being put to the 
former name Salem, maketh it Jerusalem, 
where peace is seen. It is called Salem, by 
the first name, Psal., 76-2. It is put for the 
church militant. Isa., 62-1. And the 
church triumphant is called the new Jeru- 
salem. Rev., 3-12. 

JERUSHA — He that possesses the inheritance ; or, ex- 
iled, banished, rejected. 2 Kings, 15-33. 

JESHIMON — Solitude, desolation. The name of a 
desert, i Sam., 23-24. 

JESHUA— A saviour. 

JESHURUN — Upright, or righteous. Israel is sa 
called. 

JESSE — To be, or who is ; or, my present. 

JESUI — Who is equal, proper, placed ; or, flat country. 
The son of Asher. Gen., 46-17. Num.,. 
26-44. 

JESHUITES — The posterity of Jesui. 

JESUS — The holy name lesus; Saviour; who saveth his 
people from their sins. Mat., 1-21. The 
eternal Son of God, of one substance and 



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equal zi'ifh the Father, the mediator of the 
covenant of grace, i^'ho in the fullness of 
time became man, and so z^^as and con- 
tinues to be God and man in tn'o distinct 
natures and one person forever. The word 
Jesus is taken for the doctrine of Jesus, 
Acts, 8-35 ajid for Joshua, zcho brought 
God's people into the land of Canaan, and 
zvas therein an ancient type of our Lord 
Jesus. Heb., 4-8. 

JETHER — He that excels, or remains : or, that ex- 
amines, searches ; or, a Hne or string. 
Judg., 8-20. 

JETHRO — His excellence, his remains, his posterity. 
JETHUR — He that keeps : otherwise, order, succession ; 

or mountainous. Son of Ishmael. Gen., 

25-15- 
JEUSH — He that is devoured, gnawed by the moth ; 

otherwise, assembled. Son of Rehoboam, 

2 Chron., 11-19. 
JEW, JEWS— .9o called from Judah. See JUDAH. 
JEWESS. 
JEWISH. 
JEWRY. 
JEZEBEL — Island of the habitation ; or, woe to the 

habitation ; or, isle of the dunghill, or woe 

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JEZRAHIAH— The Lord is the east; or the Lord 
arises ; or, brightness of the Lord. Chief 
of the singers, Neh., 12-42. 

JEZREEL — Seed of God ; or, God who spreads the evil ; 
or, dropping- of the friendship of God. 

JEZREELITE — An inhabitant of the city Jezreel. 
JIDLAPH — He that distills, or drops water; or 

hands joined. Son of Nahor and Milcah. 

Gen., 22-22. 
JOAB — Paternity, or who has a father ; or, voluntary. 
JOAH — Fraternity, or who has a brother ; or, brother 

of the Lord. 

JOANNA — The grace, the gift, or the mercy of the 
Lord. 

JOASH — Who despairs ; or, he that burns, who is on 
fire. 

JOB — He that weeps, that cries ; or, that speaks out of 
a hollow place. He dwelt in the land of 
Uz, and was an upright and just man, fear- 
ing God, Satan was permitted to bereave 
him of his children and substance, and to 
smite him with sore boils. He was visited 
by his friends in his affliction; God blessed 
his latter end and gave him twice as much as 
he had before. Job's patience is recom- 
mended as an example to the godly in all 
ages. Jam., 5-1 1. 



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JOCHEBED — Glorious, honourable, a person of merit; 

or, the glory of the Lord. The mother of 

Moses. Exod., 6-20. 

JOEL — He that wills, commands, or swears. 

JOEZER — He that aids and assists, i Chron., 12-6. 

JOHA — Who enlivens and gives life, i Chron., 8-16. 

JOHANAN — Who is liberal, merciful, pious, and grants 

favour ; otherwise, the grace of the Lord. 
JOHN — The grace, gift or mercy of the Lord. 

JOKSHAN — Hard, difficult, scandalous. Gen., 25-2. 

JOKTAN — Small ; or disgust, weariness ; or, dispute, 

contention. The son of Heber. Gen., 10-25. 
JONADAB — Who acts in good earnest, gives and offers 

freely, liberally ; or, who acts as a prince. 
JONAH or JONAS — A dove ; or, he that oppresses. 
JONATHAN— Given of God, or the gift of the Lord. 
JOPPA — Beauty, comeliness. 
JORAM— To cast; elevated. 
JORDAN — The river of judgment; or, he that shews, 

or rejects judgment, or descent. 
JORIM — He that exalts the Lord, or the exaltation of 

the Lord. 

JOSE — Raised, or who exists ; or, who pardons, or 
saviour. 

JOSEPH — Increase, addition. The eleventh son of 
Jacob, beloved by his father, but hated by 



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his brethren. His two dreams foretold his 
advancement; he was cast into a pit by his 
brethren, and sold to the Ishmaelites, He 
interpreted Pharaoh's dreams, and was 
made ruler of Egypt. His brethren in the 
seven years famine are sent to Egypt by 
Jacob for corn; and afterward Jacob with 
his family come to Joseph in Egypt, who 
receives them kindly, and settles them in 
the land of Goshen. In the history of 
Joseph there are many zvonderful steps of 
divine Providence relating to his afflicted 
and exalted state, which are recorded in the 
book of Genesis. (2) Joseph was also 
the name of a disciple of Christ, a rich man 
of Arimathea, who buried the body of our 
Lord Jesus in a tomb prepared for himself. 
Mat., 27-57. ^^<^ "^^^ likewise the name 
of several others. Luke, 3-24-26-30. Acts, 
1-23. 
JOSES— 5^^^ JOSE. 

JOSHUA— The Lord, the Saviour. 

JOSIAH — The Lord burns, or the fire of the Lord. 

JOTHAM— Perfection of the Lord. 

JUBAL — He that runs, or he that produces ; or, a 
trumpet. 



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JUBILEE — A feast of the Jezi's, every fiftieth year; in 
Hebrew, Jobel, whicli, according to somej 
signifies a ram's horn, or a trumpet, hy 
which the jubilee year was proclaimed. 
Others derive the etymology of Jobel from 
the Hebrew Jubal, which formerly signified 
as they say, to play upon instruments; and 
this year z^vs celebrated zuitli music and all 
expressions of joy. Others arc of the 
opinion, that it comes froni the verb Hobil, 
to bring or call back: because then every- 
thing ZkVS restored to its first possesor. 

TUDAH — The praise of the Lord. 

VCDAS—Thc same as TUDAH. 

TL'DEA — A country. 

JULL-\ — Dovv-ny ; frojn Greek zi'ord meaning down, soft, 
and tender hair. A friend of St. Paul's, 
Rom., 16-15. 

JL'LIL'S — Froju the same. Acts, 27-1. 

TUXL\ — From Juno, or from Juventus,, youth. A kins- 
maji of St. Paul. Rom.. 16-7. 

JL^PITER — Aj.s if it z^'ere juvans pater, the father that 

helpeth. 

JUSTUS— Just, upright. 



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KABZEEL — The congregation of God. Josh., 15-21. 

KADESH— Holy, or holiness. 

KADESH-BARNEA — HoHness of an inconstant son; 

or, holiness of the corn, or of purity. 
KEDAR — Blackness, or sorrow. 
KEDEMAH— Oriental ; from Kedem, the East. Gen., 

25-15. 
KEDEMOTH — Antiquity, old age; or, orientals. The 

name of a wilderness. Deut., 2-26. 
KEILAH — She that divides or cuts. 
KEMUEL — God is risen ; or, God has raised him. The 

son of Nahor. Gen., 22-21. 
KENAZ — This nest ; or, this lamentation, this posses- 
sion, this purchase. The father of Othniel. 

Jos., 15-17. 
KENITES — Possession, or purchase, or lamentation, or 

nest. 
KEREN-HAPPUCH— The horn, or child of beauty. 

Job's third daughter. Job., 42-14. 
KERIOTH— The cities, the callings. 
KETURAH — He that burns, or makes the incense to 

fume ; otherwise, perfumed, or odoriferous. 
KEZIA — Superficier, or angle ; or, cassia. The daughter 

of Job. Job, 42-14. 



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KEZIZ — End, extremity. A valley. Josh., 18-21. 

KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH— The graves of lust. Num., 

11-34. 
KIDRON — Obscurity, obscure. 2 Sam., 15-23. 

KIR — A city, a wall, or meeting. 

KIR-HARESETH— The city of the sun ; the city with 

walls of burnt brick. 
KIR-JATH — City, vocation, lesson, reading, or meeting. 

A city. Josh., 18-28. 

KIRIATHAHI— The two cities, the callings, the meet- 
ings. 
KIRJATH-ARBA— The city of four. 

KIRJATH-ARBI— City of cities ; or, the city of those 
that watch. Ezra, 2-25. 

KIRJATH-BAAL— The city of Baal, or of those that 
command, or that possesses. Josh., 15-60. 

KIRJATH-JEARIM— The city of woods or forests. 

KIRJATH-SANNAH— The city of the bush ; or, the city 

of enmity. Josh., 15-49. 
KIRJATH-SEPHER— The city of letters, or of the 

book. Josh., 15-15. 
KISH — Hard, difficult; ofhenvise, straw, or forage. 
KITTni — They that bruise ; or, gold, or colouring. 
KOHATH — Congregation, wrinkle, obedience ; or, to 

make blunt. 
KOHATHITES— T/i^ posterity of Kohath. 

KORAH— Bald, frozen, icy. 



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LABAN — White, shining, gentle. 

LACHISH — She walks, she goes ; or, who exists of him- 
self. 

LAHMI — My bread, or my war. The brother of Goliath, 
I Chron., 20-5. 

LAISH— A lion. 

LAMECH — Poor, made low ; or, who is struck. 

LAODICEA — Just people ; from Greek words meaning, 
people and just. 

LAODICEANS — Inhabitants of Laodicea. 

LAPIDOTH — Enlightened, or lamps. The husband of 
Deborah. Judg., 4-4. 

LAZARUS— The help of God. 

LEAH— Weary, tired. 

LEBANON— White, or incense. 

LEBBEUS— A man of heart. 

LEGION. 

LEHABIM — Flames, or which are inflamed; or, the 
points of a sword. Gen., 10-13. 

LEHI — Jaw-bone. The name of a place. Judg., 15-9. 

LEMUEL— God with them. 

LEVI — Who is held and associated. 

LEVITES — Of the posterity of Levi. 

LIBNAH— White, whiteness. 

LIBNI — The same. The son of Gershon. Exod., 6-17. 



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LIBYA — In Hebrew, Ltibim, the heart of the sea; or, a 

station that has a heart. 
LIBYANS— T/z^ people of Libye. 
LINUS— Nets. A friend of St. PaiiVs. 2 Tim., 4-21. 
LO-AAIMI— Not my people. 

LOIS — Better ; from the Greek zvord meaning better. 
LO-RUHAMAH— Not having obtained mercy; not 

pitied. 
LOT — Wrapt up, hidden, covered; otherzvise, myrrh, 

rosin. 
LUCAS — Luminous. 
LUCIFER— Bringing light. 
LUCIUS— 6^^^ LUCAS. 
LUKE— 5^^(? LUCAS. 
LUZ — Separation, departure. 
LYCAONIA— She-wolf. A province. 
LYDDA — The name of a city. 
LYSANIAS — That destroys or drives away sorrow; 

from the Greek words meaning solution 

and sorrow. 
LYSTRA — That dissolves, or disperses. 



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MAACHAN— To squeeze. 
MAASELIAH— The work of the Lord. 



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MACEDONIA — Adoration, prostration, according to 
the Hebrew; but, elevated, eminent, accord- 
ing to the Greek, 

MACHIR— He that sells, or that knows. 

MACHPELA— Double. 

MAGDALA — Tower, or greatness. 

MAGDALENE — Tower ; otherwise, grand, elevated, 
magnificent. Mat., 27-56. 

MAGOG — Roof, or that covers, or that dissolves. 

MAGOR-MISSABIB— Fear round about. Jer., 20-3. 

MAHALALEEL — He that praises God ; or illumination 
of God. The son of Cainar, Gen., 5-12. 

MAHALATH — Melodious song ; otherwise infirmity. 
The wife of Rehoboam. 2 Chron., 11-18. 

MAHANAIM— The two fields, or two armies. 

MAHAR-SHALAL-HASHBAZ— Making speed to the 
spoil, he hasteneth the prey. Marg, 

MAHLAH— Tft^ same with MAHALATH. One of the 
daughters of Zelophehad. Num., 26-33. 

MAHLON— Song, or infirmity. 

MAKKEDAH — Adoration, or prostration, according to 
the Hebrew; or, raised, eminent, according 
to Greek. A city. Josh., 10-10. 

MALCHAM— Their king. 

MALCHISHUA — My king is a saviour; or magnificent 
king. The son of Saul, i Sam., 14-49. 

MALCHUS— King or kingdom. 

MAMMON— Riches. 



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MAMRE — Rebellious ; or, bitter ; or, that changes, that 

barters ; or, fat, or elevated. 
MANAEN — A comforter ; or, he that conducts them ; or, 

preparation of heat. 
MANASSEH — Forgetfulness, or he that is forgotten. 
MANEH — A species of money, 
MANOAH— Rest, or a present. 
MAON — House, or habitation ; otherwise crime ; or, by 

sin. A city. Josh., 15-55. 
MARA — Bitter, or bitterness, 
MNRKR—The same, 
MARCUS— Polite, shining. 
MARK— T/ie same, 
MARS-HILL — The place where the celebrated judges 

of Athens held their supreme council, 
MARTHA— Who becomes bitter. 
MARY — Exalted, or bitterness of the sea, or myrrh of 

the sea ; or, lady or mistress of the sea. 
MASREKAH — Whistling, or hissing; or, who touches 

vanity. A city. Gen., 36-36. 
MASS AH — Temptation. The name of a place, Exod., 

17-7. 
MATRI — Rain, or prison. One of the ancestors of Saul, 

I Sam., 10-21. 
MATTAN — Gift, or the rains ; or, the death of them. 
MATTATHIAS— The gift of the Lord. 
MATTHAT— Gift, or he that gives. Luke, 3-24. 
MATTHEW— Given, or a reward. 



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MATTHIAS— 6^^^ MATTATHIAS. 

MAZZAROTH— The twelve signs. Marg, 

MEDAD — He that measures ; or, the water of love, or of 
paps. 

MEDAN — Judgment, process ; or, measure, habit, cover- 
ing. Son of Abraham. Gen., 25-2. 

MEDES — A people of the province of Medin. 

MEDIA — Measure, habit, covering, or abundance. 

MEGIDDO — That declares ; or, his precious fruit ; or, 

that spoils. 
MEGIDDON— T/i^ same. 

MEHETABEL — How good is God? or, has done good 
to us. The wife of Hadar. Gen., 36-39. 

MEHUJAEL— Who proclaims God ; or, God that blots 
out, or, according to the Syriac and Hebrew j 
who is smitten of God. Gen., 4-18. 

MELCHI — My king, or my counsel. 

MELCHIZEDEK— King of righteousness. 

MELITA — Affording honey, from whence honey distills ; 
from Greek zvord meaning honey. An 
island now called Malta. Acts, 28-1. 

MEMPHIS— By the mouth. 

MEMUCAN — Impoverished ; or, to prepare ; certain, 
true. Esth., 1-16. 

MENAHEM — Comforter ; or, who conducts them ; or, 
preparation of heat. 

MENE — Who reckons, or who is counted. 



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MEPHIBOSHETH— Out of the mouth proceeds re- 
proach. 

MERAB — He that fights, or disputes ; or, that multiphes. 

MERARI— Bitter, or ; to provoke. 

MERCURIUS— ^ false god from the Latin word Mer- 
cari, to buy or sell, because this god pre- 
sided over merchandise. In Greek Hermes, 
which signifies orator, or interpreter. 

MERIBAH— Dispute, quarrel. 

MERIB-BAAL — Rebellion ; or, he that resists Baal, and 

strives against the idol, i Chron., 8-34. 
MERODACH — Bitter contrition; or bruised myrrh. 

According to the Syriac, it signifies , the 

little lord. This is the name of one of the 

Chaldean deities. 
MERODACH-BALADAN— Who creates contrition ; or, 

the son of death, or of thy vapour. 
MEROM — Eminences, elevations. 
MEROZ — Secret, or leanness. 
MESHACH — That draws with force ; or, that surrounds 

the waters. 
MESHECH — Who is drawn by force ; or, included, shut 

up, surrounded. 
MESHELEMIAH — Peace, or perfection, or retribution 

of the Lord ; or, the Lord is my recompense, 

or my happiness. The father of Zechariah, 

I Chron., g-21. 



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MESOPOTAMIA — In Hebrew Aramnaharaim, that is, 

Syria of the two rivers. The Greek word 

Mesopotamia, also signifies between two 

rivers ; from Greek words meaning middle 

and river. 
MESSIAH— Anointed. 

METHEG-AMMAH— The bridle of bondage. 
METHUSAEL — Who demands his death; or, death is 

his hell or grave. 
METHUSELAH — He has sent his death ; or, the arms 

of his death ; or, spoil of his death. 
MICAH — Poor, humble ; or, who strikes, or is struck ; or, 

who is there, or the waters here. 
MICAIAH— Who is like to God. 
MICHAIAH— T/t^ same. 
MICHAEL— T/i^ same. 
MICHAL — Who is it that has all? or, who is perfect, 

or complete ? or, the whole is water. 
MICHMASH — He that strikes ; or, poor who is taken 

away. The name of a town. Sam., 13-2. 
MIDI AN — Judgment; or, measure, habit, covering. 
MIDIANITES. 
MIDIANITISH. 

MIGRON — Fear ; or, a farm, or throat. Isa., 10-28. 
MILCAH— Queen. 
MILCOM— Their king. 
MILETUM — Red, or scarlet; from the Greek word 

meaning vermilion, red. 



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illLLO — j^/l>:e?s, plentitude. repletion. 
MIXXI — Dis::-r:', !-e:k:^ned, prepared. Jer., 51-27. 
MIXXITH — C:--:::^!. ;:rcpared. A cif\\ Judg.. 11-33. 
MIRIAM — Exalted: or b:::rr::c5s :: :hr sea: or myrrh 
of the sea : or, lady or mistress :: t'::r sea. 
MISHAEL— Who is asked for, or lent; on Goi -hes 



MISREPHOTH-J.IAi:.i— The bt:r::h:g-s of the waters; 
or furnaces hrr : : s are melted. A 
pla^e Zir.crc : c i^crc sc.lt pits. Josh., 11-8. 

MITYLEXE — A C-rcc'=: :: J signifying purity, cicsLns- 
ing. or press. 

MIZAR— Little. Marg. 

MIZPAH — A sf :i th 5 ertdation, or that waits for. 

MIZPEK— 7'-/ s:yy:. 

MISRAlli — Er: :'.:": :::::s ; r-r. who is straitened, or 
'uliCKzi up'. Tr.e son of Ham. Gen., ia-6. 

]MXASOX — A ihgeitt seeker, or betrothing, or re- 
nte r.bering. or an exhorter. 

;M0AB— Of the f-hrr. 

MC AEITES— T r sterity of MOAB. 

MOLADAH— Birth, generation. A city. Josh., 15-26. 

:.:':^EECH— Khte. 

S L^ J L^Kj •_ 'l~L 1 rlC Su'fiic. 

iMORDEh.E — Contrition, or bitter bruising: or. myrrh 
bruised : or. who teaches to bruise. 

MORIAH — Bitterness :: thr L:ri; :r. doctrine, or fear 
of the Lord. 



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MOSEROTH— Erudition, discipline, bond. Num., 33-30. 

MOSES — Taken out of the water. He was of the hovtse 
of Levi, born in Egypt, and miraculously 
preserved, God appeared to him in a burn- 
ing bush, and sent him to deliver the Israel- 
ites out of Egypt, He was appointed by 
God to lead the Israelites through the zvild- 
erness to the land of Canaan. Being about 
to die, he blessed all the tribes of Israel; 
he viezvs the land of Canaan, dies; is buried 
by God, and loshita made his successor. 
He was a very great man, and highly hon- 
oured by God in many respecjts. The law 
was g-iven by Moses, but grace and truth 
came by Jesus Christ. John, 1-17. 

MUSHI — He that touches, and withdraws himself, that 
takes away. Son of Merari, Exod., 6-19. 

MYRA — 7^ derived from the Greek word meaning I flow, 
pour out, weep. 

MYSIA — Criminal, or abominable ; from the Greek word 
meaning crime. 



N 

NAAMAN — Beautiful, agreeable, or, that prepares him- 
self to motion. 
NAAMATHITE— fF/to is of Naamath. 



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NAASHON — That foretells, that conjectures ; or, ser- 
pent ; or, their auguries. 

NABAL — A fool, or senseless. 

NABOTH — Words, or prophecies, or fruits. 

NADAB — Free and voluntary gift ; or, prince. 

NAGGE— Brightness. 

NAHARI — My nostrils, my nose; or, hoarse, dry, hot, 
angry. One of David's valiant captains. 
2 Sam., 23-37. 

NAHASH — Snake, or serpent, or that foretells, or brass. 

NAHOR — Hoarse, dry, hot, angry. 

NAHUM — Comforter, penitent; or, their guide. The 
name of a prophet. Nah., i-i. 

NAIN — Beauty, pleasantness. 

NAIOTH — Beauties ; or habitations, abodes. 

NAOMI— Beautiful, agreeable. 

NAPHISH — The soul ; or, he that rests or refreshes him- 
self, that respires ; or, according to the 
Syriac, that multiplies. The son of Ishmael, 
Gen., 25-15. 

NAPHTALI — Comparison, likeness ; or, that struggles, 
or fights. 

NARCISSUS — Astonishment, stupidity, surprise. Rom., 
16-11. 

NATHAN — Who gives, or is given. 

NATHANAEL— The gift of God. 

NATHAN-MELECH— The gift of the king. 2 Kings, 
23-11. 



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NAUM— 5^£? NAHUM. 

NAZARENE — Kept, or flower. A native of Nazareth. 

NAZARETH— Separated, sanctified. 

NEAPOLIS — New city, from the Greek words meaning 

new, fresh, and a city. 
NEBAIOTH — Words, or prophecies, or fruits. 
NEBAT— That beholds. 

NEBO — That speaks, prophesies, or fructifies. 
NEBUCHADNEZZAR— Tears and groans of judg> 

ment; or, trouble, or sorrow of judgment. 
NEBUZAR-ADAN — Fruits or prophecies of judgment; 

or, winnowed, or spread. 
NECHO — Lame, or w^ho was beaten. The name of a 

king of Egypt. 2 Kings, 23-29. 
NEHELAMITE — Dreamer, or dream ; or, vale, or brook, 

or inheritance of the waters. 
NEHEMIAH — Consolation, or repentance of the Lord ; 

or, rest of the Lord ; or, conduct of the 

Lord. 
NEHUSHTA — Snake, soothsayer, or of brass. Mother 

of Jehoiakim, 2 Kings, 24-8. 
NEHUSHTAN — Which is of brass or copper; by deri- 
sion, a trifle of brass. 
NER — Lamp, brightness ; or, land new tilled. 
NEREUS— 5>.- NER. 

NERI— My light. The father of SalathieL Luke, 3-27. 
NERIAH — Light and lamp of the Lord ; or, the Lord is 

my light. 



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NETHANEEL— 5^^^ NATHANAEL. 

NETHANIA— The gift of the Lord. 

NETHINIMS — Given, or offered. The Giheonites, or 

those who succeeded them in their service. 
NIBHAZ — That fructifies, or that produces vision ; or, to 

prophesy, to foretell, or to speak. An idol 

of the Avites, 2 Kings, 17-31. 
NICANOR — A conqueror, or victorious ; from Greek 

word meaning I conquer. 
NICODEMUS — Innocent blood ; or according to the 

Greek, the victory of the people ; from the 

Greek words meaning I conquer, and the 

people. 
NICOLAITANS— Victory of the people ; from the Greek 

zvords meaning, I overcome, and the people. 

The follozvers of Nicholas. 
NICHOLAS — From the same. A deacon. Acts, 6-5. 
NICOPOLIS — The city of victory, or victorious city; 

from the Greek zvords meaning I conquer, 

and a city. 
NIGER— Black. 
NIMRIM — Leopard, bitterness, rebellion, or change. 

The name of a place. Isa., 15-6. 
NIMROD — Rebellious, or steep of descent, or of him that 

rules. 
NIMSHI — Rescued from danger ; or, that touches. 
NINEVEH — Handsome, agreeable ; or, dwelling. 
NINEVITES— T/^^ people of Nineveh. 
NISAN — Flight, or standard ; or, proof and temptation. 



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NISROCH — Flight, or standard, or proof and tempta- 
tion ; tender, or delicate. 

NO — Stirring up, or a forbidding. 

NOADIAH — Witness ; or assembly, or ornament of the 
Lord. 

NOAH — Repose, or rest, or consolation. 

NOAH — That quavers, or totters. Daughter of Zelophe- 
had. Num., 26-33. 

NOB — Discourse, prophecy. 

NOBAH — That barks, or yelps. A city. Num., 32-42. 

NOD — Vagabond. A country. Gen., 4-16. 

NOPH — Honeycomb, a sieve, or that drops. 

NUN — Son, posterity; durable and eternal. 

NYMPHAS — Spouse, or bridegroom. 



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OBADIAH— Servant of the Lord. 
OBAL^Inconvenience of old age ; or, of the flux. The 

son of Joktan, Gen., 10-28. 
OBED— A servant. 
OBED-EDOM — The servant of Edom, or the Idumean ; 

or, labourer of the man, of red, or earthy. 
OBIL — That weeps, or deserves to be bewailed ; or 

ancient ; or, vvho is brought. One that had 

the care of David's camels, i Chron., 27-30. 
OCRAN — Disturber, or that disorders. 



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■ODED — To sustain, to hold, to lift up. 

OG — A cake, bread baked in the ashes. 

OHEL — Tent, tabernacle ; or, brightness, i Chron., 3-20. 

OLYMPAS— Heavenly. 

OMAR — He that speaks; or, bitter. Gen., 36-11. 

OMEGA — The last of the Greek alphabet. 

OMRI— A sheaf, or bundle of corn; or, rebellion, or 

bitter. 
ON — Pain, force, iniquity. 
ONAN — Pain, strength, power, iniquity. 
ONESIMUS — Profitable, useful ; from Greek word 

meaning usefulness. 
ONESIPHORUS— Who brings profit ; from the Greek 

zvords meaning usefulness and he that 

brings. 
OPHEL — Tower, or elevated place ; or, obscurity. 
OPHIR— Ashes. 

OPHRAH— Dust, fawn, lead. A city. Josh., 18-23. 
OREB — A raven, sweet, caution, or mixture, or evening. 
ORION — A constellation. 
ORNAN — That rejoices; their bow or ark; or light of 

the sun. 
ORPAH — The neck or the scull, nakedness of the mouth 

or face. 
OTHNI — My time, my hour. The son of Shemaiah. i 

Chron., 2y-y. 
OTHNIEL — The time or the hour of God. 
OZEM — That fasts ; or, their eagerness. 
OZIAS — Strength from the Lord. 



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PAARAI— Opening. 

FADAlSi-ARAM—Padan of the field, and Aram Syria ; 

a city of Syria where Laban dwelt. Gen., 

25-20. 
PAGIEL — Prevention of God, or prayer of God. 

PALESTINA — Which is covered, watered, or to bring or 

cause ruin. 
PALTI — DeHverance, or flight. Son of Raphu. Num., 

13-9- 
PAMPHYLIA — A nation made of every trihe^ from the 

Greek words meaning all and a tribe. 
PAPHOS — Which boils, or which is very hot. From 

Greek words meaning to boil, or to be very 

hot. 
PARAN — Beauty, glory, ornament. 
PARBAR — A gate or building belonging to the temple. 
PARMENAS — That abides and is permanent, from the 

Greek word meaning I abide. 
PAROSH— A flea ; or, fruit of the moth. Ezra., 2-3. 

PARSHANDATHA— Revelation of corporeal impuri- 
ties, or of his trouble ; or dung of impurity. 
The son of Haman, Esth., 9-7. 

PARTHIANS— Horsemen. 



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PARUAH — Flourishing, or, according to the Syriac, 
that flies away. Father of Jehosaphat. i 
Kings, 4-17. 

PASHUR — That extends, or multipHes the whole, or 
whiteness ; or, that multiplies or extends the 
liberty, or the principality. 

PATARA — Which is trod under foot ; from the Greek 
word meaning I tread under foot. 

PATHROS — Mouthful of dew ; or, persuasion, or dila- 
tation of ruin. 

PATMOS — Mortal; from the Greek zvord meaning I am 
squeezed to pieces. 

PATROBAS — Paternal or that pursues the steps of his 
father ; from Greek words meaning a father, 
and I go. Rom., 16-14. 

PAU — That cries aloud ; or, that appears. A city. Gen.,. 

36-39. 

PAUL — A worker. His former name was Saul, a sep- 
ulchre, a destroyer. 

PAULUS. 

PEDAHZUR — Saviour, strong and powerful ; or, stone 
of redemption ; or, the redemption of that 
which is placed or set up. Num., i-io. 

PEDAIAH — Redem.ption of the Lord. 2 Kings, 23-36. 

PEKAH — He that opens ; or, that open the eye, or that 
is at liberty. 

PEKAHIAH— It is the Lord that opens. 

PELATL\H — Let the Lord deliver ; or, the deliverance, 
or flight of the Lord. 



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PELEG — Division. The son of Eber. Gen., 10-25. 
PELETHITES — Judges, or destroyers. These were 

troops or guards of king David. 2 Sam., 

8-18. 
PENIEL — Face, or vision of God ; or, that sees God. 
PENINNAH — Pearl, precious stone ; or, his face. The 

wife of Elkanah. i Sam., 1-2. 
PENUEL— 6^^^ PENIEL. 
PEOR — Hole, or opening. 
PERGA — Very earthy ; from the Greek words meaning 

very and the earth. 
PERGAMOS— Height, elevation. 
PERIZZITES — The name of the people, who dwelt in 

villages, or places not enclosed with walls, 
PERSIA — That cuts or divides ; or, nail, gryphon, horse- 
man. 
PERSIS — The same. 
PETER — A rock, a stone. 
PETHUEL — Mouth of God ; or, dilitation, or, persuasion 

of God. Father of Joel. Joel, i-i. 
PHALEC— 6^^^ PELEG. 
PHALLU — Admirable, or hidden. The son of Reuben. 

Gen., 46-9. 
PHALTI — Deliverance, or flight. The son of Laish. i 

Sam., 25-44. 
PHANUEL — Face, or vision of God. Luke 2-36. 
PHARAOH — That disperses, that spoils, that discovers ; 

or, according to the Syriac, the revenger, 

the destroyer ; the king, the crocodile. 



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PHAREZ — Division, rupture ; or, that breaks forth vio- 
lently. 

PHARPAR— That produces fruits; or, the fall of the 
bull. 

PHEBE — Shining, pure. 

PHENICE — Red, or purple ; from the Greek word mean- 
ing palm-tree. 

PHICOL — The mouth of all, or every tongue ; or, perfec- 
tion, or completing of the mouth. Gen., 

21-22. 

PHILADELPHIA— The love of a brother, or of a 
fraternity ; from the Greek words meaning a 
friend and a brother. 

PHILEMON — That kisses, or is affectionate ; from 
Greek word meaning a kiss. 

PHILETUS — Amiable, or who is beloved. 

PHILIP — Warlike, or a lover of horses. 

PHILLIPPI— T/i^ same. 

PHILISTIA — The country of the Philistines. 

PHILISTINES— Those that dwelt in villages. 

PHILOLOGUS — A lover of learning, or of the word; 
from Greek words meaning a lover, and 
the word. 

PHINEAS — A bold countenance, or face of trust, or pro- 
tection. 

PHLEGON — Zealous, burning. 

PHRYGIA— Dry, barren. 

PHURAH — That bears fruit, or that grows. 



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PHYGELLUS — Fugitive. One zvko forsook St, PauL 

PI-HAHIROTH— The mouth, the pass of Hiroth, or the 
opening of Hberty ; or, mouth engraved. 

PILATE — Who is armed with a dart. 

PINON — Pearl, or gem; or, that beholds. One of the 
heads of Esau's posterity. Gen., 36-41. 

PIRATHON — His dissipation, his deprivation; his rup- 
ture ; or according to the Syriac, his ven- 
geance. A city. Judg., 12-15. Whence 
Pirathonite, Judg., 12-13. 

PISGAH — Hill, eminence, fortress. 

PISIDIA— Pitch, or pitchy. 

PI SON — Changing, or doubling, or extension of the 
mouth ; or, extended or multitude. One of 
the rivers of Paradise. Gen., 2-1 1. 

PITHOM — Their mouthful, or bit ; or consummation, or 
dilatation of the mouth. A city. Exod., 
i-ii. 

PITHON — His mouth, or his persuasion, or gift of the 
mouth. Son of Micah. i Chron., 8-35. 

PONTIUS — Marine, or belonging to the sea. 

PONTUS— The sea. 

PORATHA— Fruitful. The son of Haman. Esth., 9-8. 

PORCIUS. 

POTIPHAR— The bull of Africa ; or, a fat bull. 

POTI-PHERA— That scatters, or demolishes the fat. 

PRISCA — A Latin word signifying ancient. 2 Tim., 
4-19. 



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PRISCILLA — From the same, 

PROCHORUS — He that presides over the choirs ; from 
the Greek zvords meaning before, and com- 
pany of singers. Acts, 6-5. 

PUBLIUS— Common. 

PUDEN S — Shamefaced. 

PUL — Bean, or destruction. 

PUNON — Precious stone, or that beholds. One of the 

stations of the Israelites. Num., 33-42. 
PUR — Lot. See Appellatives. 

PUTEOLI — A city in Campania. 

PUTIEL — God is my fatness. The father-in-law of 
Eleazar. Exod., 6-25. 



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QUARTUS— The fourth. Rom., 16-23, 



R 

RAAMAH — Greatness, thunder ; or, some sort of evil, 

or bruising, or company. Gen., 10-7. 
RABBAH — Great, powerful, contentious, or disputative. 



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RAB-MAG — Who overthrows or destroys a multitude; 

or, chief, or prince of dissolution ; or, chief 

of the magicians. Jer., 39-3. 
RAB-SARIS- — Grand master of the Eunuchs. 2 Kings, 

18-17. 
RAB-SHAKEH — Cup-bearer of the prince, or chamber- 
lain. 
RACHAL — Injurious, or, perfumer, or trafficking. A' 

city. I Sam., 30-29. 
RACHEL— A sheep. 
RAGAU — A friend, a neighbor. 

RAGUEL — Shepherd of God, or friend of God ; or, rup- 
ture of God. The father of HobaL Num., 

10-29. 
RAHAB — Proud, strong, quarrelsome. Egypt, as most 

think, is called by this name. Psal., 87- 

4-89-10. 
RAHAB — Which is large and extended, or public place. 

The name of a woman. 
RAKKATH — Empty, or spittle, or temple of the head. 

A city. Josh., 19-35. 
RAKKON — Vain, void ; or, mountain of lamentations 

and tears ; or, mountain of enjoyment. A 

city. Josh., 19-46. 
RAM — Elevated, sublime ; or, who rejects, or is rejected. 
RAMAH — From the same. 
RAMATH— Raised, lofty. A city. Josh., 19-8. 



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RAMATHAIM-ZOPHIM— ^ city, i Sam., i-i. The 
same as Ramah. Literally, Ramathaim, 
signiHes the two Ramathas, probably be- 
cause the city was divided into two parts. 
The city of Ramah, Samuel's birthplace, 
was also called Zophim, which signifies 
watch-tower, or watchmen, because the 
prophets, who are called watchmen, had a 
school, or college there. 

RAM ATH-LEHI— Elevation of the jaw bone. The 
name of a place. Judg., 15-17. 

RAMESES — Thunder ; or reproach of the mouth ; or he 
that destroys, or dissolves evil. Gen., 47-11. 
Exod., i-ii. 

RAMOTH — Eminence, high places. A city of this 
name was situated in Gilead, and called 
Ramoth-gilead. i Kings, 4-13. 

RAPHA — Relaxation, or physic. 

RAPHU— Cured, comforted. 

REBA — The fourth, or a square ; that stoops or lies 
down. A king of Midian. Num., 31-8. 

REBEKAH — Fat, fattened ; or, quarrel appeased or re- 
moved. 

RECHAB — Square, or chariot, or team of horses, or a 
rider. 

RECHABITES— The posterity of Rechab. 

REGEM — That stones, or is stoned, or purple. The son 
of Jaddai. i Chron., 2-47. 



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REGEM-MELECH— He that stones the king; or the 
purple of the king, or of the council. Zech., 

7-2. 

REHABIAH — Breadth, or extent, or place of the Lord ; 

or, God is my extent, he hath set me at 

liberty. The son of Eliezer. i Chron., 

23-17. 
REHOB — Breadth, space, or extent. A city. Josh., 

19-28. 
REHOBOAM— Who sets the people at liberty; or, 

space of the people ; or, that lets the people 

breathe, or blow. 
REHOBOTH — Spaces, or places. 
REHUM — Merciful, compassionate, or friendly. 
REI — My shepherd, my companion, my friend; or, my 

evil, or my breaking, i Kings, 1-8. 
REMALIAH— The exaltation of the Lord; or, who is 

rejected of the Lord. 
REMMON — Greatness, elevation ; or, a pomegranate- 
tree. A city. Jos., 19-7. 
REMPHAN — The name of an idol which some think to 

he Saturn. See STAR in Appellatives. 
REPHAEL — The physic, or medicine of God. The son 

of Shemaiah. 1 Chron., 26-7. 
REPHAIM — Giant, physician, or relaxed, or that relax, 

that weaken. 
REPHAIMS — From the same. 
REPHIDIM— Beds, or places of rest. 



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RESIN— A bridle, or bit. A city. Gen., 10-12. 

REU — His friend, his shepherd. The son of Peleg. 

Gen., 11-18. 
REUBEN — Who sees the son, or vision of the son. 

Jacob's eldest son by Leah; he endeavoured 

to deliver Joseph from his brethren. 
REUBENITES— T/z^ posterity of Reuben. 
REUL — Shepherd, or friend of God. The son of Esau. 

Gen., 36-4. 
REUMAH— Loft]/, subHme. Nahors concubine. Gen., 

22-24. 
REZIN — Voluntary, or good will ; or, runner. 
REZON — Lean, or small, or secret, or prince. The son 

of Eliadah. 1 Kings, 11-23. 
RHEGIUM — Rupture, or fracture. From the Greek. 
RHESA— Will, or course. 
RHODA— A rose. 
RHODES— A rose. 
RIBLAH — Quarrel, or greatness to him ; or, quarrel that 

increases, or that spreads. 2 Kings, 23-33. 
RIMMON — Exalted, pomegranate. 
RIPHATH — Remedy, or micdicine, or release, or pardon. 

The son of Gomer. Gen., 10-3. 
RISSAH — Watering, distillation, or dew. One of the 

stations of the Israelites in the zvilderness. 

Num., 33-21. 
RIZPAH — Bed, or extension, or coal, or fire stone. 
ROMATI-EZER— Exaltation of help. Son of Heman. 1 

Chron., 25-4. 



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ROMAN — Strong, powerful ; from the Greek word 

meaning strength. 
ROMANS. 

ROME — Strength, power. 
ROSH — The head, or the top, or the beginning. The son 

of Benjamin. Gen., 46-21. 
RUFUS— Red. 

RUHAMAH — Having obtained mercy. Marg. 
RUMAH — Exalted, subhme, or rejected. A city. 2 

Kings, 23-36. 
RUTH— Filled, satisfied. 



SABEANS — Captivity, or, conversion, age. 
SABTECHA — That surrounds, or causes wounding. 

The son of Cush. Gen., 10-7. 
SADOC — Just, or, justified. The father of Achim. Mat., 

1-14. 
SALAH — Mission, sending; or, branches, or dart, or, 

according to the Syriac, that spoils, or 

spoiled. The son of Arphaxad. Gen., 

10-24. 
SALAMIS — Shaken, tost, beaten ; from the Greek word 

meaning, I beat, I toss. An island. Acts, 

13-5- 



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bALATHIEL— I have asked of God ; or, loan of God. 

SALE]\I — Complete, perfect, or peace. 

SALBI— John, 3-23. See SHALIM. 

SALMON — Peaceable, perfect, or that rewards. 

SALAIONE— .^ eity. 

SALO^IE— See SALMON. 

SA]\L\RL\ — His lees, his prison, his guard, his throne, 

or his diamond. In Heb., Shomeron. 
SA^IARITANS— People of Samaria. 
SAjMLAH — Raiment ; or, his left hand ; or, his name, his 

astonishment, or what has been put to him. 

A king of Edom. Gen. 36-36. 
SA]\IOS — Full of gravel: from the Greek zcord meaning 

sand. An island. 
SA^MOTHRACLA. — An island, so called because it was 

peopled by Samians and Thracians. Acts, 

16-11. 
SAMSON — His sun; or, according to the Syriac, his 

service, or his ministry ; or, here the second 

time. 
SAiMUEL — Heard of God, or asked of God. 
SANBALLAT — Bush in secret ; or, the enemy in secret. 
SAPH — Rushes or sea moss, end, consummation ; or 

vessel, flat, threshold. A giant. 2 Sam., 

21-18. 
SAPHIR— ^ city. 
SAPPHIRA— That relates, or tells; or, that writes or 

composes books : or, handsome. 



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SARAH — Lady, or princess ; or, the princess of the mul- 
titude. 

SARAI — My lady, my princess. 

SARDIS — Prince of joy, or song of joy ; or, that which 
remains. Syr., a pot, a kettle. 

SAREPTA — A goldsmith's shop, where metals used to 
be melted and tried. 

SARGON — Who takes away protection ; or, that takes 
away the garden ; or, according to the 
Syriac, nets, snares. A king of Assyria.. 
Isa., 20-1. 

SARON— 6^^^ SHARON. 

SARSECHIM — Master of the wardrobe ; or, of the per- 
fumes. Jer., 39-3. 

SARUCH — Branch, layer ; or, twining. 

SATAN — Contrary, adversary, a party in a process, an 
enemy, an accuser. 

SAUL — Demanded, or lent, ditch, sepulchre, death, or 
hell. 

SCEVA — Disposed, prepared ; from the Greek zvord 
meaning I dispose, I prepare. 

SCYTHIAN — Tanner, or leather-dresser. 

SEBA — Drunkard ; or, that turns, or surrounds ; or, old 
man, according to the Syriac. 

SEBAT — Twig, sceptre, tribe. Zech., 1-7. 

SEGUB — Fortified, or raised, i Kings, 16-34. 

SEIR — Hairy, goat, demon, tempest, or barley. 

SELEUCLA. — Shaken or beaten by the waves, or that 
runs as a river. 



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SEMEI — Hearing, or obeying. 
SENEH — Bush, a rock, i Sam., 14-4. 
SENNACHERIB— Bush of destruction of the sword, of 

soHtude, of drought. 
SEPHARVAIM — The two books, or the two scribes. 
SERAH — Lady of scent ; or, the song ; or, the morning, 

the morning star. The daughter of Asher, 

Gen., 46-17. 
SERAIAH — Prince of the Lord, or the Lord is my 

prince ; or, song of the Lord. 
SERGIUS— PAULUS. 
SERUG — Branch, layer ; or, twining. The father of 

Nahor. Gen., 11-22. 
SETH — Put, or who puts. 
SHAALBIM — That beholds the heart ; or, fist, or hand, 

or fox of the sea. Judg., 1-35. 
SHAARAIM — Gates, valuation, hairs, barley, tempests, 

goats, demons. A city, i Chron., 4-21. 
SHAASHGAZ — He that presses the fleece ; or, he that 

performs the shearing of the sheep. Esth., 

2-14. 
SHADRACH — Tender nipple ; or, field soft and tender. 

Dan., 1-7. 
SHALIM— Fox, or fist, or path. 

SHALISHA — Three, or the third ; or, prince, or captain. 

SHALLUM— Perfect, or peaceable. 

SHALMAN — Peaceable, perfect ; or, that rewards. Hos., 
10-14. 



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SHALMANEZER — Peace tied or chained, or perfection 

and retribution, or peace taken away. 
SHAMGAR — Named a stranger ; or, he is here a strang- 
er ; or, surprise, astonishment of the 

stranger. 
SHAMHUTH — Desolation, destruction, astonishment ; 

or desolation of iniquity. One of David's 

captains, i Chron., 27-8. 
SHAMIR — Prison, bush, less; thorn. Josh., 15-48. 
SHAMMAti — Loss, desolation, astonishment. 
SHAMMUAH— He that is heard, or obeyed. 
SHAPHAN— A rabbit, or wild rat ; or their brink, their 

lip, their breaking. 
SHAPHAT— A judge, or judging. 
SHARAI — My Lord, my prince, or my song. A man's 

name. Ezra., 10-40. 
SHAREZER — Overseer of the treasury, or of the store 

house ; or the treasures of him that sings ; 

or, that sees the ambushes. 
SHARON— His plain field, his song. 
SHASHAK — A bag of linen; or, the sixth bag. i 

Chron., 8-14. 
SHAVEH — The plain ; or that puts, or makes equality. 

Gen., 14-5. 
SHEALTIEL— I have asked God. 
SHEARIAH— Gates of the Lord; or, tempest of the 

Lord. The son of Azel. i Chron., 8-38. 
SHEAR-JASPIUB— The remnant shall return. Marg, 
SHEBA — Captivity, or compassing about, repose, old 

age. 



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SHEBAXIAH — The Lord that converts, or that recalls 
from captivity, or that captivates ; or, that 
understands, that builds. Neh., 9-4. 

SHEBXA — Who rests himself, or who is now captive. 
SHECHEAI — Part, portion, the back, shoulders, early in 
the morning. 

SHEDEUR — Field, pap, al-mighty ; or, destroyer of fire, 
or of light. Num., 1-5. 

SHELAH — That breaks, that unties, that undresses. 

.SHELE]\nAH — God is my perfection, my happiness, 
my peace ; or, the peace or perfection of the 
Lord. 

SHELEPH — Who draws out. The son of Joktan. Gen., 
10-26. 

SHELOMITH — ]\Iy peace, my happiness, my recom- 
pense. Daughter of ZERRUBBABEL. 
I Chron., 3-19. 

STIELL'^IIEL — Peace of God, or God is my happiness ; 
or, retribution, or perfection of God. The 
son of Ztirishaddai. Num., 1-6. 

SHEM — Name, renown ; or, he that put or places, or 
who is put or placed. The son of Noah, 
from zchoin the Messiah zi^as descended. 

SHE:\L\L\H— That hears, or, that obeys the Lord. 

'SHE]\L\RIAH — God is my guard, or the guard of the 
Lord ; or, diamond, dregs, thorn, or bush 
of the Lord, i Chron., 12-5. 



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SHEMEBER — Name of force, or fame, of the strong, 
or of the wing. King of Zeboim, Gen., 
14-2. 

SHEMER — Guardian, thorn, i Kings, 16-24. 

SHEMIDA — Name of knowledge, or that puts knowl- 
edge ; or, the knowledge of desolation, or 
of astonishment; or, the science of the 
heavens. Son of Gilead. Num., 26-32. 

SHEMINITH— The eighth. 

SHEMIRAMOTH— The height of the heavens ; or, the 
elevation of the name, i Chron., 15-18. 

SHEN — Tooth, ivory, or change ; or, he that sleeps. The 
name of a place, i Sam., 7-12. 

SHENIR — Lantern, or light that sleeps ; or, renewing 
of the lamp, or he that shewes. 

SHEPHATIAH— The Lord that judges; the judgment 
of the Lord ; or, God is my judge. 

SHESHACH — Bag of flax, or linen ; or, the sixth bag. 

SHESHBAZZAR — Joy in tribulation ; or, production, or 
defence of joy; or, joy of the vintage. 

SHETHER-BOZNAI— That makes to rot and corrupt; 
or, that seeks and examines those who de- 
spise me. Ezra, 5-3. 

SHEVA — Vanity, elevation, fame, or tumult. One of 
David's scribes. 2 Sam., 20-25. 

SHIBBOLETLI — Burden, ear of corn, or current of 
water. 

SHICRON — Drunkenness ; or, his gift, or his wages. 
A city. Josh., 15-11. 



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SHIGGx\ION — A song of trouble or comfort. Psal., 7. 
Title. 

SHILOAH— 5^^^ SILOAH. 

SHILOH— ^^^ Appellatives. 

SHILOH — Peace, or abundance. A city. 

SHILONITE— 0/ the city of Shiloh. i Kings, 11-29. 

SHIMEAH— That hears, that obeys. 

SHIAIEI — That hears or obeys ; or, name of the heap ; 
or, that destroys the heap ; or, my reputa- 
tion, my fame. 

SHIMSHAI— My smi. 

SHINAR — The watching of him that sleeps ; or, spoil 
of the tooth ; or, change of the city. 

SHIPHRAH — Handsome, or trumpet ; or, that does 
good. As Egyptian midzvife. Exod., 1-15. 

SHI SHAK— Present of the bag, of the pot, of the thigh, 

SHITTIM — That turn away, or divert ; otherwise 
scourge, rods, or thorns. 

SHOBAB — Returned, turned back. The son of David, 
2 Sam., 5-14. 

SHOBACH — Your bonds, your chains, your nets, your 
gins ; or, his captivity ; or, your conversion, 
your return ; or, a dove house, according 
to the Syriac. General of Hadarezer's 
army. 2 Sam., 10-16. 

SHUAH — Pit, or that sv/ims ; or, humiliation, meditation, 
or, word. 

SHUAL — Fox, hand, fist ; or, traces, way. 



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SHUHITE. 

SHULAMITE — Peaceable, perfect, that recompenses. 

SHUNAMITE— ^ native of, 

SHUNEM — Their change, their repeating, their second, 

or their sleep, i Sam., 28-4. 
SHUR — Wall, ox, or that beholds. A zmlderness. Gen., 

16-7. 
SHUSHAN— Lily, rose, or joy. 
SHUTHELAH — Plant, or verdure ; or, moist pot, or 

drinking pot. The son of Ephraim, Num., 

26-35. 
SIBMAH — Conversion, return, captivity, old age, rest. 
SIDON — Hunting, fishing, venison. 
SIGIONOTH — According to variable songs, or tunes. 

Marg. 
SIHON — Rooting out ; or, conclusion. 
SIHOR — Black, trouble ; or, early in the morning. The 

river Nihis in Egypt. Isa., 23-3. 
SILAS — Three, or the third. 
SILOAS, or SILOAM — Sent, or who sends ; or dart, 

branch, or whatever is sent. 
SILOE — The same. 
SILVANUS — Who loves the woods, or forests from the 

Latin zvord Silva, a wood. 
SIMEON — That hears, that obeys, or is heard. 
SIMON — That hears or obeys. 
Sl'N—Bush. 
SINAI — Bush. According to the Syriac, enmity. 



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SION — Xoise, tumult. A mountain of the cGiintry of 
the AmoriteSj the same as Hermon. Deut., 

4-48. 

SIRION — A breast-plate ; or, deliverance, or a song of 
the dove. 

SISERA — That sees a horse, or a swallow. 

SR^AN — Bush, or thorn. This is the Babylonian name 
of the third nionth of the Hebrew year, 
which answers in part to our May and June. 
Esth., 8-9. 

SMYRNA— Myrrh. 

SO — A measure for grain, or dry matters. An Egyptian 
zcord. 

SOCOH — Tents or tabernacles. A city. Josh., 15-48. 

SODI — My secret. Father of Gaddiel. Num., 13-10. 

SODO^I — Their secret, their line, their cement. 

SODOMITES. 

SOLOMON — Peaceable, perfect, or who recompenses. 
He zi'as the son of Dai'id, king of Israel. 
He prayed to God for wisdom, and obtained 
wisdom, riches and honour. He built the 
temple of Jerusalem, zvhere the sacriiices 
were offered to God. He married Pharaoh's 
daughter, and built for her a house. He 
loved many strange women, zvho turned 
azcay his heart after their gods. It is 
thought that the three books he zvrote, 
namely. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the 
Canticles, are an evidence of his repentance. 



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SOPATER— Who defends the father, or the health of 

the father ; from the Greek words meaning, 

I save, and father. A disciple of St, Paul's, 

Acts, 20-4. 
SOREK — Vine, hissing, a colour inclining to yellow. 
SOSIPATER— 5^^^ SOPATER. 
SOSTHENES — Saviour, strong and powerful, from the 

Greek words meaning I save, and strength 

force. 
SPAIN — In Greek, rare, or precious. 
STACHYS — Spike. From Greek. 
STEPHANAS — A crown, or crowned ; from the Greek 

zvord meaning a crown. 
STEPHEN— Tft^ same, 
SUCCOTH — Tents, tabernacles. 

SUCCOTH-BENOTH — The tabernacle of young wom- 
en, or the tents of prostitutes. 2 Kings, 

17-30. 
SUR — That withdraws, or departs. The name of one of 

the gates of Solomon s temple, 2 Kings, 

1 1-6. 
SUSANNA— A lily, or a rose, or joy. 
SUSI — Horse, or swallow, or moth. The father of 

Gaddi. Num., 13-11. 
SYCHAR— ^ city. John, 4-5. 
SYENE — Bush ; or, enmity, according to the Syriac. 

Ezek., 29-10. 
SYNTCHE — That speaks, or discourses, from the Greek 

zvord meaning, to converse. Phil., 4-2. 
LofCj 



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SYRACUSE— That draws violently. 

SYRIA— /w Hebrezv, Aram, sublime, or that deceives. 

SYRIAC. 

SYRlAf^— Who is of Syria. 

SYRIANS. 

SYROPHENICIAN— Red, or purple, drawn to; from 

the Greek words meaning I draw, and red, 

palm-tree, or of purple. 



T 

TAANACH — Who humbles thee, or answers thee, or 
afflicts thee. A city, i Kings, 4-12. 

TABBATH — Good, or goodness. A place, Judg., y-22, 

TABEAL— Good God. 

TABEEL — The same, Ezra, 4-7. 

TABERAH— Burning. 

TABITHA — Is a Syriac word, signifying clearsighted. 
She is also called, Dorcas, that is, wild 
goat, or kid. 

TABOR — Choice, or purity. Syr. bruising, contrition. 

TABRIMON — Good pomegranate ; or, goodness raised ; 
or, the navel, or middle, prepared, reck- 
oned, given. The father of Ben-hadad. i 
Kings, 15-18. 

TADMOR — The palm, or palm-tree; or, bitterness, or 
change. 



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TAHAPANES — Secret, temptation, hidden, flight, cov- 
ered standard. 
TAPHENES — Standard, flight, temptation, secret. 
TALITHA-CUMI — Young woman, arise. A Syriac 

and Hebrezv expression. Mark, 5-41. 
TALMAI — My furrow ; or, that suspends the waters ; 

or, heap of waters. The son of Anak. 

Josh., 15-14. 
TAMAR — A palm, or palm-tree. 
TAM MUZ— Abstruse, concealed. 
TANHUMETH — Consolation, or repentance ; or, bottle, 

or wall that is given, or of a gift. The 

father- of Seraiah. 2 Kings, 25-23. 
TAPHATH — Little girl ; from the Hebrew , Taphah, or 

Taph, to take short steps, like children; 

otherzvisc, distillation, drop. The daughter 

of Solomon, i Kings, 4-1 1. 
TARPELITES — Ravishers, or wearied; or, succession 

or order of miracles or ruinous order, or 

rank. The name of a people. Ezra, 4-9. 
TARSHISH — Contemplation, or examination, of the 

marble, or of the joy ; or, precious stone, 

the colour of marble. 
TARSUS— Winged, feathered. 
TARTAK— Chained, bound, shut up. 
TARTAN — That searches and examines the gift of the 

turtle; or, their law. 2 Kings, 18-17. 
TATNAI — That gives, or the overseer of the gifts, of 

the presents, of the tributes. Ezra, 5-3. 



102 T 

TEBAH — Murder, butchery, or guarding of the body, 
a cook. Son of NahoYj and Reumah. Gen., 
22-24. 

TEBETH — The Babylonish name of the tenth month of 
the Hebrews, that answers partly to De- 
cember, and partly to January. 

TEKEL— Weight. 

TEKOA — Trumpet, or sound of the trumpet; or, that 
is confirmed. 

TEL-HARSA — A heap, or suspension of the plough, or 
of deafness, of silence, or, suspension of 
the head. A place. Ezra, 2-59. 

TEL-]\IELAH — Heap of salt, or of mariners ; or, sus- 
pension of the salt, or of the mariner. 
Ezra, 2-59. 

TEMA — Admiration, or perfection, consummation ; or, 
the south. 

TEMAN — The south, or Africa ; or, perfect. 

TEMANITE— .4;z inhabitant of Teman. 

TERAH — To breathe, to scent, to blow. 

TERAPHIM— An image, an idol. 

TERTIUS— The third. Latin. 

TERTULLUS — A liar, an impostor; from the Greek 
zvord meaning a teller of stories, or mon- 
strous things. 

TETRARCH — Governor of a fourth part of a kingdom. 

THADDEUS — That praises and confesses. Mark, 3-18. 



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THAHASH — That makes haste, or that keeps silence; 
or, of the colour of hyacinth. The son of 
Nahor. Gen., 22-24. 

THAMAH — That blots out, or suppresses. Ezra, 2-53. 

THEBEZ — Muddy ; or, eggs ; or, fine linen, or silk. 

THELAZAR — That unbinds and grants the suspension, 
or the heap. A part of Syria. 2 Kings, 
19-12. 

THEOPHILUS— A friend, or a lover of God; from 
Greek words meaning God and a friend. 

THESSALONICA— Victory against the Thessalians. 

THEUDAS— A false teacher. 

THOMAS— A twin. 

THYATIRA — A sweet saviour of labour, or sacrifices 
of contrition ; from the Greek words mean- 
ing scent, perfume, and I bruise, I disturb. 

TIBERIAS — Good vision, or the nave, or a breaking 
asunder. 

TIBERIUS— Son of Tiber. Luke, 3-1. 

TIBNI — Straw, or hay; otherzvise understanding. 

TIDAL — That breaks the 3^oke ; or, the knowledge of 
elevation. King of nations. Gen., 14-1. 

TIGLAH-PILESER — That binds or takes away cap- 
tivity, miraculous, or ruinous ; or, that 
hinders or binds, and withholds the snow 
that falls. 

TIMEUS — In Greek may signify, perfect, honourable ; 
in Hehrezv, admirable. 

TIMNATH — Image, or figure, or enumeration. 



].04 T 

TIMON— Honourable. Acts, 6-5. 

TIMOTHEUS— Honour of God, or valued of God; 

from Greek words meaning honour and 

God. 
TIPHSAH — Passage, leap, or step ; or, the passover. i 

Kings, 4-24. 
TIRHAKAH — Inquirer, examiner or dull observer ; or, 

law made dull. King of Ethiopia. 2 Kings, 

19-9. 
TIRSHATHA — That overturns the foundation ; or that 

beholds the time, or, the year according to 

the Syriac. 
TIRZAH — Benevolent, pleasant, well-pleasing, or that 

runs. 
TISHBITE — That makes captives ; or, that turns back 

or recalls, that dwells, i Kings, 17-1. 
TITUS — Honourable, from the Greek word meaning I 

honour. 
TOB — Good, or goodness. The name of a country, 

Judg., 1 1-5. 
TOB-ADONIJAH— My good God; or, the goodness 

of the foundation of the Lord. 2 Chron., 

17-8. 

TOBIAH — The Lord is good, or the goodness of the 
Lord. 

TOGARMAH— Which is all bone, or strong ; or, break- 
ing or gnawing of the bones. 

TOHU — That lives, or that declares, i Sam., i-i. 

TOI — Who wanders. King of Hamah, 2 Sam., 8-9. 



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TOLA — Worm, or grub, or scarlet. 

TOPHEL — Ruin, folly, without understanding, insipid. 

A desert place. Deut., i-i. 
TOPHET — A drum, or betraying. See Appellatives. 
TROAS — Penetrated ; from Greek word meaning I pen- 
etrate. 
TROGYLLIUM— .^ city in the isle of Samos. 
TROPHIMUS— Well educated, or brought up; from 

the Greek word meaning to bring up, or 

educate. Acts, 20-4. 
TRYPHENA— Delicious, delicate. 
TRYPHOSA— Thrice shining. 
TUBAL — The earth, the world ; or, that is carried, or 

led ; or, confusion. 
TUBAL-CAIN — Worldly possession, or possessor of the 

world; or, who is jealous of confusion. 

The son of Lamech. Gen., 4-22. 
TYCHICUS — Casual, happening ; from the Greek word 

meaning fortune. 
TYRANNUS— A prince, or that reigns. 
TYRE — In Hebrew, Sor, or Tzur ; strength, rock, sharp. 
TYRUS— T/z£? same. 



u 

UCAL — Power, or prevalency. 

ULAI — Strength; or fool, senseless. The name of a 
river. Dan., 8-2. 



106 U 

ULAM — The porch, the court : or, their strength, or 
their folly. I Chron., 7-16. 

ULLA — Elevation, or holocaust, or leaf or young child. 

I Chron., 7-39. 
UNNI — Poor, or afflicted, or that answers. The nume 

of a porter or singer. 1 Chron., 15-18. 

UPHAZ — Gold of Phasis, or Pison, the finest gold. 

UR— Fire, or light. 

URI— My light, or fire. 

URIAH, or URIJAH— The Lord is my light, or fire; 

the light of the Lord. 
URIEL — God is my light, or fire : or the light of God. 

I Chron., 15-5. 
URIM and THUMMIN— Lights and perfection. 

UZ — Counsel, or wood ; or, according to the Syriac, to 

fix, to fasten to. 
UZZAH — Strength, or a goat. 

UZZEN-SHERAH— Ear of the flesh, or of the parent; 

or the ear of him that remains. A city, 

I Chron., 7-24. 
UZZI — ]\Iy strength, or my kid. Son of Bukki. I 

Chron., 6-5. 
UZZIAH — The strength of the Lord; or, the kid of 

of the Lord. 
UZZIEL — The strength of God ; or, kid of God. i 

Chron., y-y. 
UZZIELITES — The posterity of Uzziel, Num., 3-27. 



V-Z 107 



V 

VASHNI — The second. The son of Samuel, i Chron.^ 

6-28. 
VASHTI — That drinks ; or, thread, or woof. 
VOPSHI — Fragment, or diminution. Father of Nahbi. 

Num., 13-14. 



Z 

ZABDI — Portion, dowry. The father of Carni. Josh., 

7-1. 
ZACCHEUS — Pure, clean; just, or justified. 

ZACHARIAH— Memory of the Lord, or man of the 

Lord. 
ZADOK— Just, or justified. 
ZAHAM — Crim.e, filthiness, im.purity. The son of 

Rehoboam. 2 Chron., 11-19. 
ZAIR — Little ; or afflicted, in tribulation. A city. 2 

Kings, 8-21. 
ZALMON — His shade, his obscurity, his image. A 

mountain. Judg., 9-48. 
ZALMONAH — The shades, or sound of the number; 

or, your image, or picture. One of the 

stations of the Israelites in the wilderness. 

Num., 33-41. 



108 Z 

ZALMUNNA — Shadow, image, or idol forbidden ; or, 

noise of trouble. 
ZAMZUMMINS — Thinking wickedness, or wickedness 

of wicked men. Giants. Deut., 2-20. 
ZANOAH — Forgetfulness or desertion ; or, this rest, 

this consolation. A city. Josh., 15-34. 
ZAPNATH-PAANEAH— One that discovers hidden 

things ; in the Egyptian tongue, a Saviour 

of the world. The name that Pharaoh gave 

to Joseph. Gen., 41-45. 
ZARAPI— East, brightness. 
ZAREPHATH— Ambush of the mouth; or, crucible, 

in zvhich metals are melted. 
ZEBADIAH — Portion of the Lord, or the Lord is my 

portion, i Chron., 8-15. 

ZEBAH — Victim, sacrifice, immolation. 

ZEBEDEE — Abundant portion. 

ZEBOIM— Deer, goats. 

ZEBUL— A habitation. 

ZEBULUN— Dwelling, habitation. 

ZECHARIAH— 5^^^ ZACHARIAH. 

ZEDEKIAH — The Lord is my justice, or the justice of 
of the Lord. 

ZEEB— Wolf. Judg., 7-25. 

ZELEK — The shadow, or noise of him that licks, that 
laps, or strikes. One of David's thirty 
valiant captains. 2 Sam., 2y2>7' 



Z 109 

ZELOPHEHAD— The shade, or tingHng of fear ; or, the 
fear of submersion, or being burnt. 

ZELOTES — Jealous, or full of zeal; from the Greek 
word meaning zeal, jealousy. The surname 
of Simon. Luke, 6-15. 

ZELZAH— Noontide. 

ZENAS — Living ; from Greek word meaning I live. 

ZEPHANIAH — The Lord is my secret; or, the secret 
of the Lord ; or, the mouth of the Lord. 

ZEPHATH — Which beholds, that attends, that covers. 
A city. Judg., 1-17. 

ZEPHO — That sees and observes ; or, that expects, or 
covers. Son of Eliphaz. Gen., 36-11. 

ZERAH— 6^^^ ZARAH. 

ZEREDAH — Ambush, change of dominion, or descent ; 
or, plan of power. The country of Jero- 
boam. I Kings, 11-26. 

ZERESH — Misery, stranger, strange or dispersed, in- 
heritance ; otherzvise, crown of inheritance, 
or of misery. 

ZEROR — Root, or that straitens. That binds, that is 
tight; or, a stone, i Sam., 9-1. 

ZERUAH — Leprous, or wasp, or hornet. The mother 
of Jeroboam, i Kings, 11-26. 

ZERUBBABEL — Banished, or a stranger at Babylon; 
or dispersion of confusion. 

ZERUIAH — Pain, or tribulation, chains of the Lord. 

ZETHAR — He that examines, or beholds ; or, olive of 
vision, or olive of the turtle. Esth., i-io. 



110 z 

ZIBA — Army, fight, strength, stag. 

ZIBEON — Iniquity that dwells ; or, elevation, or swell- 
ing; or, oath or fulness, or the seventh. 

ZIBIAH — Deer, or goat, or honourable and fine ; or, the 
Lord dwells ; or voluntary, according to the 
Syriac, The mother of Joash. 2 Kings, 
12-1. 

ZICHRI — That remembers, or that is a male. Exod., 
6-21. 

ZIDON — Hunting, fishing, venison. 

ZIDONIANS— T/i^ inhabitants of Zidon. 

ZIP — This, or that ; or, according to the Syriac, bright- 
ness. The second Hebrew month, which 
anszvers partly to April and May. 

ZIKLAG — Measure, pressed down. 

ZILLAH — Shadow ; w^hich is roasted ; the tingling of the 
ear. The wife of Lamech. Gen., 4-19. 

ZILPAH — Distillation ; or, contempt of the mouth. 

ZIMRAN — Song, singers, or vine. The son of Abra- 
ham. Gen., 25-2. 

ZIMRI — My field, or my vine, my branch. 

ZIN — Buckler, coldness. 

ZION — A monument raised up, heap of stones set up, 
sepulchre, turret, dryness. 

ZIOR — Ship of him that watches, or is awake, or of him 
that is robbed, or of the enemy. A city. 
Josh., 15-54. 

ZIPH — This mouth, or mouthful. A city. Josh., 15-24. 



Z 111 

ZIPPOR — Bird, or sparrow ; or crown, or dessert ; or, 
according to the Syriac, early in the morn- 
ing, or goat. The father of Balak, Num., 

22-2, 

ZIPPORAH— Beauty, trumpet. 

ZITHRI — To hide; or, demolished, or overturned ; or, 

my refuge. Son of UzzieL Exod., 6-22. 
ZIZ — Flower, branch, a lock of hair ; or according to the 

Syriac, wing, feather. The side of a moun- 
tain or hill. 2 Chron., 20-16. 
ZOAN— Motion. 
ZOAR— Little, small. 
ZOBAH — An army, or warring, or a commandment in 

that, or a swelling. 
ZOHAR — White, shining, or dryness. The father of 

Ephron, Gen., 23-8. 
ZOHELETH — That creeps, slides, or draws. A rock, 

I Kings, 1-9. 
ZOPHAR — Rising early, or crown ; or, sparrow, or little 

bird, or goat. Syr, 
ZORAH — Leprosy, or scab. 
ZOROBABEL— 6^^^ ZERUBBABEL. 
ZUAR— Small. 
ZUPH — That beholds, or observes, or watches, or, roof; 

covering ; or, honey-comb, or that floats. 

The father of Tohu, i Sam., i-i. 
ZUR — Stone, rock, that besieges, or preaches ; or plan, 

form. 



112 Z 

ZURISHADDAI— The Almighty is my rock, my 
strength ; otherwise splendour, beauty ; or, 
according to the Syriac, revolters. The 
father of Shelumiel. Num., i-6. 

ZUZIMS — The posts of the door ; or, splendour, beauty. 
These were giants who dwelt beyond 
Jordan, and who were conquered by Chod- 
orlaomer and his allies. Gen., 14-15. 



The Symbolical Language of the Scriptures 
WITH References. 



115 



A 



ABOMINATION— Idols, idolatry. Isa., 44-19. Rev., 

17-4. 
ADAMANT — Obstinate hardness of heart. Ezek., 3-9. 

Zech., 7-12. 

ADDER — Hidden, deadly malice or evil. Ps., 140-3. 
Prov., 22-32. 

ADULTERY— Faithlessness to Jehovah.' Jer., 3-8-9. 
Ezek., 16-32 ; 23-36-37. 

AIR — Invisible influence for evil. Eph., 2-2, Rev., 

16-17. 
ALTAR — A sanctuary of refuge. Exod., 21-14. i 

Kings, 1-50. 

ANCHOR— A sure holdfast. Heb., 6-19. 

ANOINT — To divinely appoint and empower. Exod., 
29-7. 2 Cor., I -2 1. 

ANT — Industry and providence. Prov., 6-6-8; 30-24-25. 

ARM — Strength of power. Ps., 10-15; 89-13. Ezek., 
30-21. 

ARROW — A judgment or scourge. Job, 6-4. Ps., 

7-13. Prov., 25-18. 
ASHES — Frailty or humiliation. Gen., 18-27. Esther, 

4-1. 



116 



BABYLOX — Spiritually tyrannical, or anti-Christian 

civil power. Rev., 16-19; ^/"S- 
BALANCE — Just standard or measure. Job, 31-6. Dan., 

5-27. 
BAPTIS^M — Divine initiation. ]\Iatt., 20-22. Rom., 6-3-4. 

BEAR — A fierce, destructive, powerful enemy. Prov., 

17-12. Dan., 7-5. 
BEARD— :\Ianly vigour. Jer., 48-37. 

BEASTS — Living creatures ; merely animal natures ; 

tyrannical powers. 2 Pet., 2-12. Rev., 

4-6; 13-2. 
BELLY — Liner man. John, 7-38. 

BILLOWS — Overwhelming trials. Ps., 42-7. Jonah, 2-3. 

BIXD and LOOSE — To ordain or restrain and permit. 

Job, 28-11. Matt., 16-19. Rev., 20-2. 
BIRDS — (Of prey) armies as a devastating scourge. 

Isa., 18-6. Rev., 19-17. 
BITTERNESS — Misery. Exod., 1-14. Ezek., 27-31. 
BLACKNESS — Sore distress and anguish. Jer., 14-2. 

Joel, 2-6. 

BLOOD — Slaughter, death, atonement, essential life. 
Deut., 12-23. Isa., 34-3. Matt., 26-28. 
John, 6-53-55. 



C 117 

BODY — An organism with members, each of which has 

a function subservient to the whole, i Cor., 

12-12-27. 
BOOK — A register of record. Rev., 3-5; 10-2; 13-8. 
BOW — Strong weapon ; weapon of victory. Job, 29-20. 

Rev., 6-2. 
BRANCH — Offspring. Isa., ii-i. Jer., 23-5. 
BRASS — Strength; obstinate resistance. Ps., 107-16. 

Isa., 47-4. 
BREASTS — Sources of strength and comfort. Isa., 

66-11. 
BREASTPLATE — Righteousness as a defence. Eph., 

6-14. I Thess., 5-8. 
BRIDE and BRIDE-GROOM— Christ and the Chtirch. 

Eph., 5-32. 
BRIDLE — Moral restraint. Ps., 32-9. Jas., 3-2. 
BRIMSTONE— Torment and utter destruction. Job, 

18-15. Rev., 14-10. 
BUCKER — Divine defence. Ps., 18-2-30. 
BULLS — Fierce and powerful enemies. Ps., 22-12. Jer., 

SO-ii. 



c 

CANDLE — Divine favour ; spiritual brightness. Job, 

29-3. Matt., 5-14-17- 
CANDLESTICK— 5^^ LAMP. 



118 C 

CARCASS — That which is doomed to be preyed upon. 
Matt., 24-28. 

CATERPILLARS — Devastating enemies. Jer., 51-14. 

CEDAR — A prince or noble; vigorous life. Ps., 92-12. 
Zech., 1 1-2. 

CHAFF — A worthless person. Job, 21-18. Matt., 3-12. 

CHARIOTS — Armies or military powers. Ps., 20-7. 
Zech., 6-1. 

CHERUBIM— Divine attendants. Ps., 18-10. Ezek., 

1-5-25. 
CISTERN — Resources. Jer., 2-13. 

CITY — Place of defence, seat of power. Prov., 18-11. 
Rev., 16-19. 

CLAY — Clinging trouble; plastic nature. Ps., 40-2. 
Rom., 9-21. 

CLOUDS — Number, majesty, veiled glory. Ps., 104-3. 
Isa., 60-8. Rev., 1-7. 

CORDS — Restraining or compelling forces. Ps., 2-3. 
Hos., 1 1-4. 

CORNER-STONE— Chief element. Eph., 2-20. i Pet, 
2-6. 

CROSS — What is called to bear with self-sacrifice. Matt., 
16-24. I Cor., 17. 

CROWN — Power, victory, dignity. Ezek., 16-12. Rev., 

4-10; 9-7. 
CUP — Full measure. Isa., 51-17. 



D 119 



D 

DARKNESS — Perplexity, distress, ignorance, unbelief, 
failure, sin. Jer., 13-16. Rom., 13-12. Isa., 
13-10. 

DARTS — Sharp and sudden temptations. Eph., 6-16. 

DAUGHTERS — (Of a city) citizens who have imbibed 
its spirit. Ps., 14-12. Isa., 37-22. 

DAY — Appointed time ; terms of blessing or judgment. 
Isa., 63-4. Job, 14-6. Rom., 13-12. 

DEATH — Insensibility, impotency, alienation from God ; 
destruction. Rev., 3-1. Rom., 7-8-9; 8-6. 

DEW — Divine blessing, bringing revival and refresh- 
ment. Hos., 14-5. 

DOG — Contempt, impurity, an ungodly person. Matt., 
15-27. Prov., 26-11. Phil., 3-2. 

DOOR — Opportunity of service or communion, i Cor., 
16-9. Rev., 3-20. 

DOVE — Purity, harmlessness. Ps., 68-13. Matt, 10-16. 

DRAGON— Cruel, persecuting power. Ezek., 29-3. Rev., 

12-13. 
DRUNKENNESS— Infatuation ; Insensibility ; under 

judgment. Isa., .28-3, 29-9. 
DUNG — Utter contempt and abhorrence. Phil., 3-8. 
DUST — Utmost humiliation; dissolution. Ps., 22-15. 

Dan., 12-2. 



120 E-F 



E 

EAGLE — Strength and security ; parental care ; cap- 
taincy. Exod., 19-4. Ezek., 17-3-7. 

EARTHQUAKE— Revolution in a State. Isa., 29-6. 

EATING— Spiritual feeding. John, 6-51-57. 

EGYPT — Supreme tyrannical power. Rev., 11-8. 

EYES — Intelligence, guidance, watchfulness. Matt., 
6-22. Num., 10-31. Deut., 11-12, 



F 

FACE — Intelligence ; manifested presence. Rev., 4-7. 

Exod., 33-13-23- 
FAT — Abundance; insensibility. Ps., 63-5. Isa., 6-10. 
FEET— Ministry. Eph., 6-15. 
FIRE — Judgment, purification. Matt., 25-41. Mai., 3-2. 

Jer., 23-29. 
FLAME — Intensity of torture. Luke, 16-24. 
FLESH — Mankind ; animal nature ; man in alienation 

from God. Luke, 3-6. Gen., 6-3. Rom., 

7-S- 
FLOOD — Desolating agency or element. Ps., 69-15. 

FOREST — A kingdom or its polity. Ezek., 20-46. 



G-H 121 

FOX — -Cunning; a crafty enemy. Ezek., 13-4. Luke, 32. 
FURNACE — Deep trial ; place of severe suffering. Isa.^ 
48-10. Matt., 13-42-50. 



GARMENTS— Character for holiness. Rev., 3-4; 16-15. 

GATES — Power, security, imminency. Ps., 147-13; 9-13. 

GIRDLE — Strength, activity, and power. Job, 12-18. 

GLASS — Purity and peace. Rev., 4-6. 

GOATS— The worthless. Matt., 25-33. 

GOLD — Intrinsic worth or wealth ; powxr. 2 Tim., 2-20. 

Prov., 18-11. 
GRASS — Temporary prosperity; frail beings. Jas., i-io. 

Isa., 40-6-7. 



H 

HAIL — Devastation in war. Ezek., 13-11. 

HAND — Power and strength. Gen., 9-2. Ps , 89-13. 

HAND, RIGHT— Place of power and honour. Mark, 
16-19. 

HARVEST — Promise of a crop ; ingathering ; separation 
in judgment. Matt, 9-37; 13-30. 



122 / 

HEAD — Chief governing person or place. Isa., 7-8-9. 
HEART — Seat of affection and spiritual perception, and 
of the interior life generally. Luke, 6-45. 

HEAVEN — Ruling power; seat of power; God. Isa., 
14-12. Rev., 6-13. Luke, 15-21. 

HELMET — Assurance of salvation. Eph., 6-17. i 
Thess., 5-8. 

HILL — Seat of divine power and safety. Ps., 15-1 ; 24-3. 

HIND — Agility, affection. Ps., 18-33. Prov., 5-19. 

HORN — Power; glorv; royal powers. Ps., 75-10. Dan., 

7-8. 

HORSE — Success in war or conquest. Zech., 6-43. Rev., 
6-2. 

HOUSE — Seat of spiritual indwelling, i Tim., 3-15. 2 
Cor., 5-1. 

HUNGER x\ND THIRST— Intense spiritual desire. 
Matt., 5-6. 



INCENSE — Acceptable prayer or service. Rev., 5-8. 

IRON — Strength, irresistible power, obduracy. Job, 
40-18. Ps., 2-9. Isa., 48-4. 



J-K-L 123 



J 

JERUSALEM — The Church in one or other dispensa- 
tion. Gal., 4-25-26. 



K 

KEY — Power to admit or exclude, specially as regards 

the Church. Matt., 16-19. 
KING — Possessor of royal power. Rev., 1-6; 5-10. 
KNEE — (Bowed) subjection, reverence. Eph., 3-14. 

Phil., 2-10. 



LADDER — Communication with heaven. Gen., 28-12. 
LAMB — Meek submissiveness and sacrifice. John, 1-29. 
LAMBS — The young and weak members of Christ's 

flock. Isa., 40-11. John, 21-15. 
LAMP — Directive light or guidance. i Kings, 15-4. 

Matt., 25-7. 
LEAVEN — Corrupt doctrine and practice. Matt., 16-6. 



124 M 

LEAVES — Profusion ; product. Ps., 1-3. Pvcv., 22-2. 
LEPROSY — Uncleanness in heart and life. Lev., 13-14^ 
LIGHT — Truth, joy, purity. Ps., 112-4; 1 19-105. i 

Thess., 5-5. 
LILY — Lovehness and purity. Cant., 2-1-2. Matt., 6-28. 
LINEN — Fine, the righteousness of saints. Rev., 19-8. 
LION — Majesty ; royal might. Gen., 49-9. Rev., 5-5. 
LOCUST — Numberless, devastating hosts or armies. 

Joel, 1-4. Rev., 9-3-7. 
LOINS GIRT — Readiness for action, i Pet., 1-13. 



M 

MANNA — Spiritual provision. Rev., 2-17. 
MARRIAGE — Relationship between God and his 

Church. Isa., 54-5. 
MEASURED — Appropriated. Zech., 2-2. Rev., ii-i. . 

MILK — Elementary spiritual instruction, i Cor., 3-2. 

Heb., 5-12. 
MIRE — Pollution; degradation. Job, 30-19. 2 Pet., 2-22^ 
MOON — Subordinate ruling power. Rev., 12-1. 

MOTHER — Source of spiritual life or death. Gal., 4-26. 

Rev., 17-5. 
MOUNTAIN — Strength, civil and spiritual; kingdom. 

Isa., 2-12-14. Dan., 2-35. 



N-O-P 125 

N 

NAIL — Steadfastness. Isa., 22-23. 
NAKEDNESS— Spiritual destitution. Rev., 3-17-18. 
NAME — DescriptiA^e designation ; the qualities implied 

by a certain designation ; honour. Ruth, 

1-20. Luke, 1-31-32. 
NET — Ensnaring device. Ps., 9-15. 
NIGHT — Spiritual darkness or ignorance. Rom., 13-12. 



O 

OAK — Strength. Amos, 2-9. 

OIL— The Holy Spirit. Matt., 25-4. 

OLIVE TREE — Source of spiritual supplies ; fruitful- 

ness to God. Rom., 11. Jer., 11-16. 
OLIVE WILD — Man in his natural state. Rom., 11-17. 
OX — Patience and strength of labour. Ps., 144-14. 



PALM TREE — Growth and fruitfulness of grace in the 

righteous. Ps., 92-12. 
PALM BRANCHES— Triumph after victory. John, 

12-13. Rev., 7-9. 



126 R 

PARADISE — The immediate presence of God. Luke^ 

23-43- 
PASSOVER — Sacrifice of deliverance, i Cor., 5-7. 

PEARL — A treasure easily coveted and sought after. 

Matt., 13-46. 
PILLAR — Support; a fixed place, i Tim., 3-15. Rev.^ 

3-12. 
PLOUGH — Spiritual labour. Luke, 9-62. i Cor., 9-10. 
PLUMB LINE — Exact measurement. Amos, 7-7-8. 
POTTER — God in his sovereignty. Jer., 18-1-10. Rom., 

9-21. 
POUNDS— .9^^ TALENTS. 
PRICKS — (Ox-goads) promptings of conscience. Acts, 

9-5. ^ 
PURPLE — Imperial or royal authority ; luxury. Luke, 

16-19. John, 19-2. Rev., 18-16. 



R 

RAIN — Refreshing and reviving heavenly blessing. Ps., 

84-6. Heb., 6-7. 
RAINBOW— Pledge of promise. Ezek., 1-28. Rev., 

4-3- 
RED — Bloodshed ; war. Isa., 63-2. Zech., 1-8. 

REED — Weakness, inconsistency. Isa., 36-6. Matt., 11-7. 

REINS — Inward thoughts and feelings ; conscience. Ps., 

26-2. Rev., 2-23. 



S 127 

RING — Honour ; loving relationship. Gen., 41-42. Luke, 

15-22. 
RIVER— Full-flowing plenty. John, 7-38. Ps., 65-9. 
ROCK — Place of safety ; firm foundation ; source of 

blessing. Ps., 28-1. Matt, 16-18. i Cor., 

10-4. 
ROD — Instrument of chastisement ; stay ; bribe. Ps., 2-9 ; 

23-4 ; 74-2. 
ROSE — The spouse in her pleasant beauty. Cant., 2-1. 



SALT — Salvation or saving power ; wisdom ; divine life. 

Matt., 5-13. Mark, 9-49. Col., 4-6, 
SAND — Countless multitude. Ps., 139-18. 
SCARLET — Earthly dominion and glory. Rev., 17-3-4. 
SCEPTRE — Royal authority. Gen., 49-10. Amos, 1-5-8. 
SCORPIONS — Instruments of torture. Rev., 9-3-5-10. 
SEA — Nations of the earth ; turbulence. Isa., 60-5 ; 57-20. 
SEAL — Confirmation, security, secrecy, restriction, 

mark. Job, 9-7. Isa., 29-11. 2 Tim., 

2-19. Rev., 60-4. 
SERPENT — Cunning, subtlety. 2 Cor., 11-3. 
SHADOW— Protection. Ps., 91-1. 
SHEEP — God's elect as cared for by him and his son. 

John, 10-3 ; 21-16. 



128 S 

SKEPHERD — Guardian, ruler, guide. Ps., 23. Nahum, 



3-18. 



SHIELD — Protection and defence. Gen., 15-1. Ps., 3-3. 
SHIP — Commerce. Rev., 8-9; 18-19. 
SHOES — Equipment for the journey of life. Exod., 
12-11. Eph., 6-15. 

SHOES OFF — Awe, reverence. Exod., 3-5. 
SHOULDER — Faculty of bearing or ruling. Isa., 22-22. 

Luke, 15-5. 
SILENCE — Utter desolation. Isa., 15-1. Jer., 7-14. 
SILVER — Price of redemption. Exod., 30-12-16. 

SLEEP — Death of the body, to be followed by resurrec- 
tion. John, ii-ii. I Cor., 15-51. 
SMOKE — Visitation of judgment. Isa., 14-31. Rev., 9. 
SNOW— Purity. Ps., 51-7. Rev., 1-14. 

SODOM and GOMORRAH— Spiritually reprobate peo- 
ple. Rev., 1 1-8. 

SPARROW — The commonest as an object of God's 
care. Ps., 86-3. 

STAFF — Divine support. Ps., 23-4. Isa., 14-5. 

STARS — Subordinate rulers. Rev., 8-12. 

STONE — Foundation of a divine work ; cause of stumb- 
ling. Ps., 118-22. I Pet., 2-8. 

STONES, PRECIOUS— Fundamental spiritual graces. 
Rev., 21-19. 

.SUN — Supreme ruling power. Joel, 2-31. 



T 129 

SWALLOW— Restlessness. Ps., 84-3. Prov., 26-2. 
SWINE — Uncleanness in nature and habit. 2 Pet., 2-22. 
SWORD — Searching judgment; war and bloodshed; 

magisterial authority. Rom., 13-4. Heb., 

4-12. Rev., 6-4. 



T 

TABERNACLE— The body in which the soul dwells ; a 

place where God dwells. 2 Cor., 5-1. 

Heb., 8-2. 
TABLE — Communion; fellowship. Ps., 23-5. i Cor., 

10-21. 
TAIL — Lower classes ; inferior part. Isa., 9-14-15. 

Rev., 12-4. 
TALENTS— Gifts for service. Matt., 25-14-30. 
TARES — Worthless pretenders. Matt., 13-24-30. 
TEETH — Cruelty ; destructive power. Ps., 58-6. Dan., 

7-5-7. 

TEMPEST — Violent affliction or judgment. Job, 9-17. 
Ps., 1 1-6. 

TEMPLE— 6^^^ TABERNACLE. Jer., 7-4. Eph., 2-21. 

THIGHS— Strength. Gen., 32-25. Ps., 45-3. 

THORNS — Unprofitable things ; instruments of chastise- 
ment. 2 Cor., 12-7. Heb., 6-8. 

THRONE— Seat of power. Isa., 66-1. 



130 U'V'W 

TOWER— Place of safety. Ps., 61-3. Prov., 18-10. 
TRAVAIL — Anxiety and strength of spirit. Gal., 4-19. 
IREES — Men in high places. Ezek., 31-2. Rev., 8-7. 



U 

UNICORN— Strength. Num., 23-22. Ps., 22-21, 



V 

VINE — The Church of Israel or of Jesus Christ. Ps., 

80-8-19. John, 15. 
VIPERS — Those whose doctrines or ways conceal a 

deadly poison. Matt., 3-7; 12-34. 
VIRGINS — The undefiled in the ways of the world. 

Rev., 14-4. 
VULTURE — Keenness of vision. Job, 28-7. 



W 

WALLS — Security. Isa., 26-1. Rev., 21-14. 
WATER — Refreshing grace ; sanctifying power ; repent- 
ance. Ezek., 36-25. John, 3-5. 



Y-Z 131 

WATERS — Afflictions ; nations under certain influences. 

Ps., 18-16. Rev., 17-15. 
WAVES — Divinely inflicted judgments. Ps., 42-7 ; 88-7. 
WHEAT— A divine gift ; God's elect. Joel, 2-24. Matt., 

3-12. 
WHEELS — Course of Providence on earth. Ezek., 1-15. 

Dan., 7-9. 
WHITE — Purity; festive joy. Rev., 1-14; 3-4. 
WIDOW— Desolateness. Rev., 18-7. 
WILDERNESwS — State of affliction and desolation. Rev., 

12-6; 17-3. 
WIND — Operation of the spirit ; fickleness ; vain hope. 

Hos., 12-1. Acts, 2-2, Jas., 1-6. 
WINE — Natural excitement; joy; judgment Jer., 25-15. 
WINGS — Protections ; quick action. Ps., 91-4. Rev., 

12-14. 
WINNOWING — Separation by judgment. Matt., 3-12. 
WOLVES — Destroyers of God's elect. John, 10-12. 
WOMAN — The Church false as well as true. Rev., 2-20. 



Y 

YOKE — Restraint ; service ; slavery. Jer., 28-14. Matt., 
11-29-30. 



z 

ZION — The Christian Church. Heb., 12-22. 



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